A United Nations team led by the Deputy UN Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has completed a four-day trip to Afghanistan to appraise the situation in the country and engage the government on a number of issues, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said in a statement

Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who was released from US custody in a prisoner swap on Thursday, says he has never cooperated with the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism), contrary to what US media repeatedly claimed.

Responding to Pakistan’s call for apprehending the perpetrators and launching an investigation, the Afghan diplomat says the security of Pakistani diplomatic missions has already been beefed up.

No female employee of the United Nations has ever been detained or harassed in Afghanistan despite opposite statements of the UN assistance mission in the country, Bilal Karimi, a spokesman for the Taliban (under UN sanctions over terrorism), said on Monday

The latest reports say that he has been along with his three companions in Paktika province of Afghanistan.