Ahmad Massoud: We need foreign support
The leader of Panjshir Fro said that he needs the financial support of foreign couries to fight against the Taliban and he was them to change their behavior towards the Taliban.
According to Isna, Ahmad Masoud, the leader of Panjshir Fro, said in a detailed ierview with CNN: “We need any kind of support that will help us defeat the Taliban… Our fight is not only for Afghanistan, but for “Security is universal.”
Ahmad Masoud is the son of “Ahmad Shah Masoud”, who led the Afghan resistance against the Taliban more than 20 years ago. 35-year-old Massoud claims that the forces under his command, known as the Panjshir Fro, have conducted 207 military operations throughout Afghanistan this year and have 5,000 soldiers.
CNN says that it is not possible to confirm this claim, and the United Nations also recely meioned the number of Panjshir Fro operations against the Taliban as 29 operations, but this group believes that the number of operations against the Taliban is much higher.
According to CNN, when Ahmad Shah Masoud was fighting with the Taliban, he corolled some areas inside Afghanistan and received support from Tajikistan, but the location of Ahmad Masoud is unclear and he managed military operations in Afghanistan from somewhere in Ceral Asia. does, so it does not corol any territory inside Afghanistan that would help meet the needs of its forces.
In this regard, Massoud claimed that 20 terrorist organizations are active in Afghanistan and said: “I say clearly that in order to defeat these 20 terrorist organizations… we need iernational support… Our fight is not only for Afghanistan, but for global security. is.”
He also accused the Taliban of creating a black market to sell American weapons and said: “We know that they are not only busy arming themselves, but also feeding global terrorist networks.”
The leader of the Panjshir Fro clarified that he does not mean the need for foreign support, the presence of foreign troops.
He said: “We have capable forces that have been trained in couer-terrorism for 20 years. That’s why we are looking for resources, not foreign forces, to liberate our coury.”
Panjshir Fro forces
Afghans do not support the Taliban; Their downfall is inevitable
However, addressing those who say that resistance is useless without foreign support, he said that the Taliban may have billions of dollars in weapons, but “it does not have the support of the Afghan people” and this will play a decisive role in this conflict.
He further claimed that the Taliban’s dominance over Afghanistan is weakening due to the crisis of legitimacy and iernal disputes, and the Panjshir Fro is developing a mechanism to replace it. He considered the fall of the Taliban governme “inevitable” and said that he is preparing for that mome.
Massoud also responded to a question about the Taliban’s promise to form an inclusive governme with the presence of differe sections of the society, saying that “this is a propaganda promise and they basically do not accept the importance of the will of the people in political legitimacy”.
Massoud also stated that the Taliban are involved in extensive iernal disputes and said, “They are not capable of creating unity among their iernal movemes, let alone forming an inclusive governme at the national level.”
Ashraf Ghani was the most ineffective of all
In response to a question about the ineffectiveness of the Afghan governmes before the Taliban came to power, Ahmad Massoud said: “They were also corrupt and full of mistakes, because the constitution and the election process were not proportionate to the ethnic diversity of Afghanistan.”
He considered the previous governmes, including Ashraf Ghani’s governme, to have systematic and deep-rooted problems and said: “These governmes and the former constitution of this coury pushed many communities to marginalization.”
“I firmly believe that the key to Afghanistan’s peace and stability lies in the distribution of power,” he said, stating that the situation became worse than ever under Ghani’s governme. This (distribution of power) is a strategic need to build a stable and resilie coury that can deal with iernal diversity and external threats.
Ashraf Ghani in an election rally – 2019
Negotiations with the US made the Taliban credible
The leader of the Panjshir Fro also considered the 2020 Doha agreeme (between Donald Trump and the Taliban) and Biden’s statemes in 2021 about withdrawing from Afghanistan as factors that gave the Taliban iernational legitimacy and indicated the end of Western support for the then Afghan governme. Stating that the Doha agreeme weakened the morale of the security forces and governme officials of the then Afghan governme, he said that “the announceme of Biden’s departure worsened the situation and caused the loss of the 20-year achievemes of Afghans.”
He said that the spirit of negotiating with the Taliban made this group stronger than before. Massoud said that the main victory of the Taliban was not on the battlefield, but on the negotiating table: “Negotiations turned the Taliban from an insurge group io a political actor and gave it credibility.”
According to Ahmad Massoud, if America had withdrawn its forces from Afghanistan without negotiating with the Taliban, the Taliban would not have come to power.
He said: “This big mistake (negotiations with the Taliban) gave them a victory that they had not achieved in armed conflicts.”
Panjshir Fro has built a network in 20 provinces
Claiming that the Panjshir Fro has now built a network and is conducting operations in almost 20 provinces of Afghanistan, he said: “Most of these operations are guerrilla operations, but the military wing of the Panjshir Fro has been deployed throughout Afghanistan and is recruiting and increasing its operational capacity.” is”.
According to Ahmad Massoud, the soldiers of the Panjshir Fro are completely composed of the remnas of the armed forces of the former governme of Afghanistan, and today their number reaches more than 5,000 permane forces in about 20 provinces. He says that without foreign support, he has conducted 207 operations throughout the coury this year.
However, in response to a question about the claim of the soldiers of this group to attack the Kabul airport last moh, he refused to give a clear answer and claimed that his forces have established a deep ielligence network among the Taliban.
The meeting of the Taliban represeative with the US Secretary of State in Doha – 2020
The assassination of my father changed the path of the Afghan nation
Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by al-Qaeda a few days before the September 11 attacks. In an ierview with CNN, his son considered his father’s assassination a mome that changed the path of the family and the eire nation of Afghanistan forever.
He also poied out that the American military left about 8.5 billion dollars of American military equipme in this coury when they left Afghanistan, and said: “The fact that the Taliban are equipped with these weapons has changed the nature of the battlefield and they are more armed than ever.” are”.
However, he said that the determination of the Afghan people is against the Taliban.
He further considered the new law of the Taliban, which prohibits the voice of women in public, as a “clear display of ignorance and arrogance” that will make it more difficult for the Taliban governme to be recognized.
He also considered the immunity of the Taliban when adopting these policies as a direct result of the “surrender of the iernational community” to the Taliban and said that the world should change its behavior towards the Taliban.
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