“Violence against women in Afghanistan must immediately stop,” Tadamichi Yamamoto, the UN Secretary-General’s special representative for Afghanistan and head of the UNAMA said in the statement, Xinhua news agency reported.

“For Afghan women to achieve their full potential and their immense capacity in development, in peace and in security, the violations of the rights of women and girls, particularly through violence, must cease,” the statement quoted the UN top official in Afghanistan as saying.

In the conflict-hit Afghanistan, violence against women and girls, according to Afghan Independent Human Right Commission (AIHRC), is a matter of concerns as women and girls are facing variety of violence ranging from underage marriages to physical beating.

Afghan Independent Human Right Commission (AIHRC) in a statement released Saturday said that the watchdog had registered 3,778 cases of violence against women in Afghanistan in the past 10 months.

Among the registered cases of violence against women over the past 10 months, according to the watchdog, 1,351 are physical harassments, 186 are sexual violence, 1,093 are using abusive languages and the remaining includes variety of violence ranging from underage marriages, forced marriage to economic violence.

“The UN family in Afghanistan stressed that alongside the effective legal and institutional mechanisms for access to justice, stopping violence against women requires an effort from all of us, from every individual, to speak out against violence in homes, workplaces and social settings,” UNAMA statement added.

In a statement released on Friday, Hezbollah offered condolences over the martyrdom of dozens of Iraqi nationals and several Iranian pilgrims in the terrorist attacks, and prayed for immediate recovery of the injured, the Arabic-language al-Ahed news website reported.

“This crime is in continuation of the massacre and destruction caused by terrorist groups in Iraq and the entire the region in line with their corrupt beliefs…,” the statement added.

The Lebanese movement also called for all-out and serious efforts to combat terrorism and eradicate Takfiri groups in the region.

According to a media reports, at least 74 people, including eight Iranian pilgrims, were killed and about 100 others were wounded when Daesh militants carried out a coordinated attack targeting a security checkpoint and a restaurant in the south of Iraq on Thursday.

Daesh claimed responsibility, saying it targeted Shiites in the outskirts of Nasiriya city in the south of Iraq, according to a Daesh statement circulating on Daesh telegram channels.

An armed attack on a restaurant was followed by a car bomb and a suicide bomber at a nearby checkpoint, a police statement said.

Security officials foiled a Daesh attack on a second restaurant nearby, but several security officials were killed and wounded in the exchange of fire.

Iraqi security officials killed six of the attackers, the statement added.