The Afghan intelligence service reported that Asadbek Madiyarov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, carried out the suicide attack in the bank building in Kandahar. He arrived in Pakistan's Baluchistan province two months before the terrorist attack, where he trained at one of the main ISIS-Khorasan training camps.

A suicide bomber blew himself up early in the morning in Kandahar province in the south of Afghanistan. As a result, 26 people died and 50 people were injured.

The Pakistani military conducted counter-terrorist operations against the militants of Hafiz Gul Bahadur group in Afghanistan.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, Bakhtiyor Saidov, visited Afghanistan for the first time since his appointment as a minister and held talks with several high-ranking officials of the Taliban movement. The parties discussed a wide range of issues of cooperation, including the activation of economic relations.

Nine people died and two others were injured due to heavy snowfall, rain and frost in Afghanistan in the last 48 hours. Due to the cold weather and snow, about a thousand cattle died in the Northern Faryab region.

The 285-kilometer Koshtepa canal, which is being built by the Taliban, receives 4-4.5 cubic kilometers or 12-13 percent of water from the Amudarya every year. This will cause water supply in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to drop from 80% to 65%. It was said that the fact that Afghanistan has not signed any international cross-border document complicates the negotiations.

China is strengthening ties with the Taliban, Xi Jinping received credentials from the Taliban-appointed ambassador, Bilal Karimi, on January 30. Before that, China was the first country to officially appoint a new ambassador to Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power.

Minister of Economy and Trade of Kyrgyzstan Daniyar Amangeldiev met with Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan Abdul Salam Hanafi. Issues related to the situation of Afghan Kyrgyz in the Greater and Lesser Pamirs were discussed at the meeting.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday that 100,000 children who were affected by the powerful earthquake in western Afghanistan in October last year are in dire straits due to the harsh winter.

Uzbekistan was the first to correctly assess the market that suddenly appeared in the region and did not miss this opportunity.