Atop a craggy mountain that has withstood foreign invaders for decades, anti-Taliban fighters fire a mounted heavy machine gun into a deep valley. He is the son of the late Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, revered for turning the Panjshir Valley into an anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban bastion. But worryingly, we understand that hundreds if not thousands of the Taliban forces have surrounded the Panjshir Valley. But if there was to be an offensive by the Taliban against the opposition forces, the opposition forces wouldn’t stand a chance and they would be wiped out pretty quickly,” he explained. TALIBAN SEIGE:The Taliban have also said they want to handle the situation peacefully, but media reports on Tuesday said the Taliban dispatched hundreds of fighters to the Panjshir Valley.

Source: Pakistan Today August 24, 2021 11:37 UTC