A team has been sent to Balkhab district to hold talks with Mawlawi Mahdi to overcome the rift through talks.

The blast happens nearly two months after another deadly attack at a mosque in Kunduz that killed at least 33.

This comes days after Taliban warned journalists in Kapisa to avoid reporting on issues that are against them.

The attack happened in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Sunday afternoon, the provincial police command said.

The blast happened in District 1 of the city of Asadabad on Sunday morning, a source said.

Taliban officials in Takhar said two Daesh members were killed in the clash that happened on the outskirts of Taluqan.

Officials said the blast was due to an unexploded ordnance left by the war.

The armed men were killed in a clash with Taliban forces in Mazar-e-Sharif city, an official said.

Officials in Herat said that traffic accidents have increased in the province in the last two months, blaming the carelessness.

A former official of the counter-terrorism bureau at the Badakhshan police headquarters under the previous government was stabbed to death.