PHOTO: TWITTERThe Taliban have taken complete control of Panjshir province, the last area in Afghanistan being held by resistance forces, the group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said on Monday. There was no immediate word from Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the opposition group resisting Taliban forces. Earlier, Taliban forces said they had fought their way into the provincial capital of Panjshir after securing the surrounding districts. He was seriously injured in a suicide attack that killed Ahmad Shah Massoud in 2001. Under Ahmad Shah Massoud, the region long resisted control by both the invading Soviet army and by the Taliban government that previously ruled from 1996 to 2001.

Source: The Express Tribune September 06, 2021 05:43 UTC