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Afghanistan
Resistance leaders Massoud, Saleh still in Afghanistan's Panjshir, setting up parallel govt
2021-09-09
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Panjshiri leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh have not fled Afghanistan and their resistance forces are still fighting the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, the ousted Afghan government’s ambassador to Tajikistan said on Wednesday.

Zahir Aghbar, envoy to Dushanbe under the government of ousted Afghanistan's Caped 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...
, told a news conference in Tajikistan’s capital that he was in regular contact with Saleh and that the resistance leaders were out of general communication for security reasons.

"Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh have not fled to Tajikistan. The news that Ahmad Massoud has left Panjshir is not true; he is inside Afghanistan," Aghbar said.

"I am in constant contact with Amrullah Saleh, who is currently in Panjshir and running the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan’s government," he said.

The Taliban swept to power last month and the Death Eater group has said they have captured the Panjshir valley, the last holdout province, though the resistance has not conceded defeat.

Resistance front to declare parallel government in Afghanistan

[KhaamaPress] The resistance front in Panjshir province led by Ahmad Masoud reacted to the new cabinet announced by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and said that they will declare a parallel government after consultation with politicians.

The front named the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
’s caretaker government as illegitimate and a vivid enmity with the people of Afghanistan.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced a 33-member caretaker government on Tuesday, September 7 which will be led by Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund.

The front in its statement reiterated resistance against the Taliban and added that the Taliban are a threat to the region and world.

"The resistance front acknowledged that they will establish a transitional democratic and legitimate government which is forged based on the votes of people and is acceptable to the international community." Reads the statement.

The front has asked the UN, UNHRC, EU, the organization of Shanghai, SARC, ECO, member states of the heart of Asia, and OIC to stop cooperation with the Taliban.
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Posted by:Fred

#2  ^British & Russians - the "independent" region separating two empires.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-09-09 12:27  

#1  Was Afghanistan ever really a nation or just lines on a map drawn by the British?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-09 12:24  

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