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An anti-Taliban resistance group in Afghanistan says it has thousands of people who are ready to fight.
North east of Kabul in the Panjshir valley, the National Resistance Front is led by Ahmad Massoud, son of the leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated by al-Qaeda in 2001.

Ali Maysam Nazari is head of foreign relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. He told Newsday:

鈥淧anjshir is secure and fortified. We have thousands of resistance fighters, we have remnants of the former ANDSF (Afghan army), especially the commandos and special forces, we have our local resistances forces and forces from other provinces.鈥�

鈥淲e would rather negotiate a final political settlement instead of going to war. There are channels at the moment, informal negotiations happening. However, we do not believe that rights and freedoms and democracy have to be sacrificed for the sake of stability. History has shown that once there is resistance in one part of Afghanistan it will grow and expand.鈥�

鈥淭he Taliban know that the people of Panjshir are able to sustain a resistance and motivate other regions to rise against their tyrannical rule.鈥�

Photo: Ahmad Massoud, leader of the fighters resisting Taliban rule (Reuters)

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