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06.09.2021 | 12:15
The Taliban has taken complete control of Panjshir province, the last area in Afghanistan held by resistance forces, the group’s spokesman said, as it cemented its control of the country three weeks after taking over Kabul, Reuters reported.
Pictures on social media showed Taliban members standing in front of the gate of the Panjshir provincial governor’s compound.
Meanwhile, the National Resistance Front (NRF) spokesman said the Taliban’s claim of victory was false and opposition forces continued to fight, adding that its forces were present in “strategic positions” across the Panjshir valley.
The whereabouts of resistance leader Ahmed Massoud and Amrullah Saleh, the former vice president who had joined resistance forces after the fall of Kabul, were not immediately known.
Saleh had declared himself acting president after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country after the Taliban takeover on August 15.
