In an interview with Afghanistan International, Latif Pedram, leader of the Afghan National Congress, said that a parallel government would be formed soon and that it would be "not outside, but somewhere inside the country." He also said that Ahmad Massoud had not gone to Tajikistan and was inside Afghanistan
Noureddine Torabi, a senior Taliban member, told the Associated Press that executions and amputations would resume in Afghanistan, but that this time it might be out of sight. In the previous Taliban era, Torabi was the Minister of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil and the Minister of Justice
Russia's RIA Novosti news agency quoted a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying that Moscow was in talks with Kabul over the possible visit of a delegation from the new Taliban government to Russia.
The Italian Foreign Minister, in a meeting with Hussein Amir-Abdollahian on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, announced the country's readiness to send the corona vaccine to inject Afghan refugees in Iran, ISNA reported.
The Taliban identified the four provinces of Laghman, Jawzjan, Sar-e-Pul and Paktia, as well as the deputy governors for Kabul and Ghazni. In addition to the six, the Taliban also announced five other appointments, mostly in the security sector.