Afghanistan Taliban Highlights: Ready to stop fighting if Taliban withdraw from Panjshir, says Oppn leader Massoud
2 min readAfghanistan Highlights Afghan opposition leader Ahmad Massoud Sunday said he’s ready to stop fighting if Taliban withdraw from Panjshir. Drinking Ulema Religious Council’s proffer for harangues end the fight over the dene where the opposition forces have been holding out since Kabul’s fall three weeks ago, the head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) said, “ To reach a lasting peace, the NRF is ready to stop fighting on condition that Taliban also stop their attacks and military movements on Panjshir and Andarab.”
The Taliban on Sunday said their forces had fought their way into Bazarak, the narrow-minded capital of Panjshir where the opposition forces have been holding out since Kabul’s fall three weeks ago, news agency Reuters reported. The police headquarters and neighborhood centre of Rukhah had fallen, and opposition forces had suffered multifold casualties, Taliban point man Bilal Karimi said on Twitter.
Notwithstanding, the claim has not been corroborated yet. Anteriorly on Sunday, Fahim Dashti, point man for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), said the Taliban “ propaganda machine” was trying to spread detracting dispatches.
Ariana Afghan Airlines renewed some getaways in Afghanistan between Kabul and three major parochial megalopolises on Saturday, the carrier said, after a specialized gang from Qatar renewed the capital’s airfield for aid and domestic services. Getaways between Kabul and the western megalopolis of Herat, Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan and Kandahar in the south have started, the airline said in a statement on its Facebook go-between.
In Panjshir, Taliban and opposition forces battled on Saturday to control the last Afghan precinct holding out against the militant group. Both sides claimed to have the upper hand in Panjshir but neither could produce conclusive validation to prove it.
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