Panjshir valley News
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The Taliban said on Monday that they had captured Panjshir province in Afghanistan. The province was the last home of anti-Taliban forces in the country. Whereas the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) termed this claim as a lie and said that we will continue to fight till our last breath.
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The Taliban claimed on Monday that Panjshir province, the last stronghold of anti-Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan, has been "completely conquered", adding that the country is now finally out of the vortex of war and that it will now return to stability.
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"I don't want to surrender to the Taliban ever," the former vice-president of Afghanistan said.
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Taliban and resistance forces continued to fight for the Panjshir valley on Saturday.
The fight for the last Afghan province holding out against the Islamist group came amid the wait for announcement of a new govt.
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The Taliban seized Kabul on August 15 after rapid advances across Afghanistan.
The Panjshir valley north of Kabul has been putting up a fight against Taliban takeover
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A representative of the main anti-Taliban opposition group said Taliban forces clash with Northern Alliance fighters in the Panjshir Valley, north of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 115 Taliban, and taking 35 more Taliban hostage.
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Fahim Dashty, spokesman for Ahmed Masood, who is leading the resistance movement against the Taliban, said seven-eight Taliban fighters were killed in a fighting in the Panjshir Valley on Monday night. Dashti said the Taliban attacked Panjshir on Monday night, where resistance forces are making a last stand against the organization in Afghanistan.
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Panjshir is one of the last remaining hotbeds of resistance in Afghanistan.
Apart from mobile internet, calls and message services have also been disconnected.
On August 23, the Taliban had sent 3 thousand Taliban fighters to the border of Panjshir to capture the valley.
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“There is no fight in Panjshir and no one has entered the province,” Ahmad Massoud’s supporter said.
The road leading to Panjshir has reportedly been blocked by the Taliban in the Gulbahar-Jabal Saraj area.
The talks between resistance front and Taliban have remained inconclusive.
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Anti-Taliban forces have started preparations for war in Afghanistan. However, the Taliban also offered these forces to leave the confrontation and come to Kabul for talks, but the forces, rejecting the Taliban's talk, challenged the Taliban from a height of 15,000 feet and took down their cannons in the field.
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In the last couple of days, the world has witnessed the fear of the Taliban militants on the innocent people of Afghanistan. There is mayhem everywhere and people are fleeing the country in a bid to escape the atrocities of the militant group which has taken over Afghanistan by force. However, amid all this turmoil, a small place in Afghanistan draws our attention because unlike the rest of the country here there is no chaos, no one is fleeing, no one is forced to hide or be afraid of knocking at the door. This place is called the Panjshir Valley, the bastion of the Northern Alliance. Here's everything you need to know about this beautiful Valley of Afghanistan.
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Taliban fighters have taken control of three northern Afghan districts
They have reached closer to resistance stronghold Panjshir Valley
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Ahmad Massoud has said Panjshir Valley will not be handed over to the Taliban at any cost
He is the son of one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s.
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The Taliban have said hundreds of their fighters are headed to the Panjshir Valley, which is currently the center of resistance in war-ravaged Afghanistan. Ahmad Massoud of the National Resistance Front has said he wants to hold talks with the radical Islamist group but that their forces are ready to fight.
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