According to the leader of the Afghan National Resistance Front, three districts have already been recaptured in the Panjshir Gorge, where many Taliban opponents are stationed.
Offensive launched against Taliban rule: A rebel group led by the son of the late commander Ahmad Shah Masood, who fought against radical Islamists, said it had seized three northern areas where militants had previously taken up after a large-scale military offensive, AFP reported.
The NRF (National Resistance Front) said the Panjshir Valley offensive was the first armed attack on Taliban forces since they returned to power.
last August, retreating to the Panjsher Gorge, where it stopped resisting in September, a few weeks after US-backed government troops capitulated.
“Since last night, when Ahmad Masood (Jr.) ordered his forces to launch an offensive, three major areas in Panjshir have been liberated,” said Ali Nazari, head of the NRF's foreign relations department. He said National Resistance Front soldiers occupied the main road, outposts and villages in the area, and then laid siege to the Taliban in the district offices. The enemy suffered heavy losses. “
Nazari said the NRF offensive would continue in 12 provinces where Front forces were present, mostly in the north.
The Taliban government has rejected NRF statements, saying there have been no “military incidents” in Panjshir or any other part of the country. “The accusations of some insurgents in the media are not true,” Zabihullah Mujahid's spokesman wrote on Twitter. “People are leaving the districts because of the clashes,” said one, who asked not to be named. Another said NRF militants set fire to a Taliban car.
The local Taliban commander confirmed that there were fights with NRC fighters. “But we were not surrounded or ambushed,” he told AFP.
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The Panjshir Valley is known not only as a place of resistance to Soviet troops in the 1980s, but also as a location for Taliban opponents – the Northern Alliance and the aforementioned National Front. >
Note that this military-political union, created in the summer of 2021 during the Taliban seizure of power, consists of former members of the Northern Alliance in the mid-1990s and other opponents of the Islamist Taliban movement.
Front Afghanistan's national resistance operates in the territories of Panjshir Province, which are still under the control of the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, when the Taliban seized control of the city, it is the main organized resistance to Islamists in the country. “, Who was killed in 2001 by al-Qaeda two days before the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Since then, his son has taken the lead, and according to local media reports, organized resistance along with other Afghan leaders in exile.
Yesterday we reported that the Taliban forced Afghan women to wear burqas.
