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Panjshir Resistance Leader Admits Fall of Province to Taliban


Mon 06 Sep 2021 | 10:50 PM
Ahmed Moamar

The leader of the Resistance Front against the Taliban in Panjshir Province, Ahmed Masoud, son of the late well-famed commander Ahmed Shah Masoud Sr., acknowledged in an audio recording on Monday that the whole of Afghanistan had fallen into the hands of the Taliban.

In the audio recording, Masoud Jr. Stressed that the resistance against the Taliban (an Afghani Islamist militant movement)  continues in Panjshir Valley.

He called for demonstrations against the Taliban in all regions of Afghanistan.

He also acknowledged the killing of a number of leaders of the military resistance.

Masoud added that members of his family were killed in the Taliban attack yesterday.

He accused the Taliban of working and not listening to Muslim scholars.

He claimed that the Taliban bring in strangers to kill the Afghan people. He also rejected "any outside interference in Afghanistan.

This comes as the Taliban announced, on Monday, full control of the province of Panjshir.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the  Taliban said in a statement that with this victory, our country has fully emerged from the quagmire of war.

He affirmed today the full control of the Panjshir province, north of the Afghan capital, Kabul.

He tweeted that the Panjshir province has been completely captured, and the province has come under the full control of the Islamic Emirate of the Taliban political system.

Mujahid added that some of the rebels were defeated in the battles while others fled, and the Taliban assured the people of Panjshir that they would not persecute them.

It is worth noting that the state of Panjshir witnessed fierce battles between the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front, based in Panjshir province, and Taliban militants.

The mountainous province of Panjshir is a stronghold of the forces of the "National Resistance Front" led by Masoud, the military-political leader of Tajik origin, against the Taliban, which has recently taken control of most of Afghanistan, including the capital, Kabul.