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Taliban stop fighting in Panjshir
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The Taliban captured the main road in Panjshir, not the province itself, said resistance force spokesman Ahmad Wali Masud.
The Afghan province of Panjshir is under the full control of the Taliban. Large-scale hostilities are no longer being conducted there. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said this, reports Interfax Wednesday, 7 September.
“Everything is under our control, there are no military operations,” he said at a press conference in Kabul, adding that, nevertheless, fighters from the anti-Taliban front may remain in Panjshir. Some of them, according to Mujahid, are fleeing from the zone in which there was a conflict.
It is also indicated that Mawlavi Kudratullah Panjsheri was appointed governor of the captured province.
In turn, a spokesman for the resistance forces, Ahmad Wali Massoud – the brother of the late Afghan warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud – said that the Taliban are far from taking control of Panjshir.
“The Taliban arrived together with foreign terrorists and seized the road in Panjshir. However, no one believes that the seizure of the road means the capture of Panjshir,” the agency quotes EFE the words of Ahmad Wali Massoud, said at a conference in Geneva.
“We have thousands of fighters. We have already gone through such situations: with Soviet troops, communists, and even with the Taliban. And each time the resistance forces eventually won out,” he added.
Earlier it was reported that the Taliban appointed interim government of Afghanistan… Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund became its head, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar became his deputy.
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