The US has called a meeting at the UN to adopt a resolution calling on the Taliban to reverse the ban of female aid workers and women attending educational institutes.
Suicide bombers hit Kabul during peak travel times through the city.
The Afghan Taliban claimed that "there is no evidence that Afghan soil has been used against any neighboring country."
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Afghan general arrested by Serbian police is also wanted for terrorism charges in France.
Four major global groups, whose humanitarian aid has reached millions of Afghans, said that they were suspending operations as they were unable to run their programs without female staff.
Fearing a possible attack, the United Kingdom also orders officials not to visit the popular spot, site of a suicide bomb attack more than a decade ago.
They returned stronger than 20 years ago with a public-relations machine portraying them as moderate, but the gender-apartheid hasn’t changed.
The world is watching as the Taliban government turns Afghanistan into a prison for women and girls.
The directive comes days after the Taliban-run administration ordered universities to close to women.