On Thursday, India announced that a technical team has been deployed to the Embassy in Kabul to coordinate the efforts of stakeholders for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
At least 11 people were injured, and five were reported dead as the quake shook Paktika's Gayan District Friday morning, suggested Bakhtar News Agency.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), in a statement, said an Indian technical team has reached Kabul on Thursday and has been deployed in the embassy there.
The United States will continue to monitor and take steps to increase pressure on the Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions in restricting the rights of women and girls, the country has said.
This is the first such visit by the Indian government to Kabul since the Taliban's takeover.
Another explosion hit a mosque in Kabul on Wednesday evening, a spokesman for the capital's commander said, adding at least two people were injured.
After the order was announced Thursday, only a handful of news outlets complied with the order. But on Sunday, most female anchors were seen with their faces covered after the Taliban's vice and virtue ministry began enforcing the order.
Meanwhile, the Afghanistan National Journalists Union said restrictions on access to information is not acceptable.
Owners have been verbally reminded that the rule applies "even if they are husband and wife", according to Riazullah Seerat, a Taliban official at the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the report said.
Men are not permitted to dine with their family members in family restaurants.
The banned TTP in an order issued by its military commission on Tuesday announced that the ceasefire will remain in place till May 15
"We have failed them," said netizens for women in Afghanistan after the Taliban released new orders on Hijab. As per the statement, women must step out only is necessary and wear head-to-toe clothing in public.
The Taliban previously decided against reopening schools to girls above grade 6, reneging on an earlier promise and opting to appease their hard-line base at the expense of further alienating the international community.
Since the Taliban took over the country in August last year, women of the country have become the greatest sufferers, ban on them from going to work as well as accessing education.
The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, however, denied government employees having been stopped at the gate
Dozens of women who arrived at Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told they couldn't do so without a male guardian, said officials.
The Taliban does not recognize the British-era Durand Line as the official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Girls were banned from attending schools in Afghanistan after the Islamic outfit-sized power in August last year. Since taking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban had rolled back women's rights in virtually every area.
Siddiqui, 38, was on assignment in Afghanistan when he was killed on July 16 last year. The journalist was covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
Khalid Payenda, 40, had served as Afghanistan's Finance Minister in the Ashraf Ghani government. He blamed himself and fellow Afghans for the swift collapse of the democratically elected government to Taliban.
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