The four-day Panjshir war with the Taliban*, which ended with the first defeat and the greatest losses, even the flight of the Taliban chief of staff, Kari Fassihuddin Badakhshi, was led by Aminjan Khesarak, commander of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
Author: Farid Ahmad
General Mohammad Amin Amani, better known as Aminjan Hesarak or Hesaraki, was born in the Tajik village of Marashtan in the Hesarak valley of the Roha district of the Panjshir province, also known as Aminjan Marashtan.
He was over 55 years old and one of the hundreds of guys who joined the Panjshir Front under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud during the jihad against the Soviets and the communist regime in Kabul. Later he became one of his faithful companions and commanders. He was commander of Hesarak Base, one of Masud's 22 bases in Panjshir, and was in charge of operations in the valley.
During the reign of Ustad Rabbani in Kabul (1992-1996), Commander Aminjan joined the Islamic State army and was a regimental commander of one of the divisions of the Afghan Ministry of Defense.
During the First Resistance (2001-2001) he was on the front line and was responsible for the northern line of Kabul, which passed through the provinces of Parwan and Kapisa. Bismillah Mohammadi, later Minister of the Interior and Defense of Afghanistan during the republic, was the chief commander of the Kabul northern front then.
After the fall of the first Taliban regime in 2001, Aminjan Hesarak joined the Afghan National Army. Meanwhile, he participated in the wars against the Taliban in various provinces of Afghanistan.
During Ashraf Ghani's rule, along with dozens of experienced generals and officers, he was also retired. Now it turns out that Ghani had a plan to remove anti-Taliban commanders from the Afghan army, and over time disbanded the army, handed over the Taliban its weapons and ammunition, and, in the end, Afghanistan itself.
While serving in the ANA, Commander Aminjan studied law and politics at Kabul University and learned English. At the same time, he twice traveled to the United States and Europe for special military courses, and also took several courses with the participation of NATO instructors in Kabul.
“He is a very decent and humble person. He is laconic and always smiles, which is a sign of his high character. He has never been a corrupt official and a bribe-taker. He always had an average life. He is a true follower and disciple of Ahmad Shah Massoud,” said a person familiar with Aminjan Hesarak.
Commander Aminjan arrived in Panjshir after the fall of the republic to the Taliban and joined the Second Resistance. During the September battles, he fought on the Darband front.
After the defeat of the front line and the invasion of the Taliban into the main Panjshir valley, commander Aminjan retreated with his troops to his native valley - Hesarak.
The battle that took place from 1 to 3 April this year in the Pne Valley of the Hesarak Valley is perhaps one of the brightest pages in the life of Aminajan Hesarak, which brought the Afghan National Resistance Front its first major victory over the Taliban.
His forces of 30 people over the four days not only repulsed three attacks by the Taliban with the least armament, but also inflicted heavy losses on them and at the same time did not suffer any human casualties, but, on the contrary, they got a lot of weapons and ammunition as trophies from Taliban.
A moment from the battle in the Pne Valley, Hesarak Valley
According to credible information provided to Sangar by both Resistance Front and Taliban sources, the death toll from the clashes exceeded 100, and no one counted the wounded, who were transferred to Roha, Gulbahar, Jabal Siraj, and Kabul emergency hospitals.
These are the biggest losses suffered by the Taliban since the fall of Kabul and Panjshir.
At the same time, this war demonstrated the military genius of Commander Aminjan Hesarak, whose talent and courage ensured the power and victory of the Resistance Front.
Using "war and flight" tactics, he was able to get out of the Taliban encirclement, set up an ambush, and destroy the groups sent to besiege him from behind and in front.
The experience of the war in the Pne Khesarak Valley of the Panjshir Valley is a new phenomenon from a military point of view, demonstrating the capabilities of the Resistance Front forces, which, without sufficient weapons and food shortages, resisted and defeated a heavily armed terrorist group. The greatest achievement of the war in the Pne Valley was that the resistance guerrillas suffered no casualties.
The only case where Sami Osmani, the commander of the resistance, was killed and another of his associates was wounded occurred in the village of Kuhe Talha of the Bazarak district, which does not apply to the Gesarak war.
However, the identity of a key Taliban commander close to Mullah Yaqub, the Islamic Emirate's defense minister who died in the war, is still unknown.
Qari Fasihuddin, the Taliban chief of staff, dubbed the "conqueror of the north" by the group, was unable to do anything to save his forces. He entered Panjshir on April 3 and the next day, according to some sources, fled from the valley.
The Khesarak Four-Day War is a new page in the glorious history of jihad and the resistance of the Afghan people to the occupation and terrorism that have taken over the country for 40 years. This war also provided this story with a new personality whose name is Aminjan Hesaraki.
*This organization is under UN sanctions due to terrorist activities.
