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2021-08-22 Afghanistan

Russian envoy to Kabul: Taliban offering a deal to Pandjir Valley

[APNEWS] The Russian ambassador in Kabul says the Taliban
Taliban

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have asked his embassy to convey their offer of a deal to a remaining pro-government holdout in northern Afghanistan.
Oh. Well, in that case hang it up, mujahideen.
Ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov said on Saturday that a senior member of the Taliban’s politicianship has asked Russia to tell fighters in the Panjshir Valley that the Taliban hope to reach a political agreement to settle the situation there.

The diplomat says the Taliban claim they don’t want bloodshed in the region.

The Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, a stronghold of the Northern Alliance militias that were allied with the U.S. during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, is the only area that hasn’t fallen to the Taliban.

Afghan government figures who have sought refuge there as Kabul and the rest of the country fell to the Taliban include Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who asserted on Twitter that he’s now the country’s rightful president, after President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
fled to the United Arab Emirates.

Moscow, which fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with the Soviet troops’ withdrawal in 1989, has made a diplomatic comeback as a mediator during the past years, reaching out to various Afghan factions, including the Taliban.

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File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 The US should be providing aid to the all opposition groups such as the Northern Alliance and pockets of resistance and all tribal groups in opposition, immediately.
The Taliban should not be allowed to run Afghanistan as a central government.
And the US military should have contingency plans ready to retake Bagram Air Base if necessary, if things go south in Kabul, and the air base an hour to the north should be necessary to continue evacuation and to exact revenge and to aid opposition allies.
The Taliban is responsible for allowing ISIS to infiltrate and bomb the crowds trapped outside Kabul airport.
The Taliban cannot be allowed to consolidate control over the whole country.
China cannot be allowed to use Afghanistan like it uses North Korea to advance its goals in Southeast Asia against our allies there.

Posted by boomerc 2021-08-22 03:56|| 2021-08-22 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 It's proxies stacked on top of proxies stacked on top of proxies.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-22 19:15|| 2021-08-22 19:15|| Front Page Top

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