History has crossed everyone out and made him it's choice.
Author: Sangar
Ahmad Massoud, leader of the Afghan National Resistance Front, is the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the National hero of Afghanistan. He was born on July 10, 1988, in the village of Piyu, Varsaj district, Takhar province, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
EXPLANATION: Ahmad Masood's year of birth is mentioned in all Internet sources as 1989. However, his mother Siddiqa Masood in the book "Massood according to his wife's story" says that her son's year of birth is 1988, which seems more logical. This book states that when the Soviets become aware of the presence of Ahmad Shah Massoud's family in Piyu, they launch their air attacks. Siddiqa Masoud writes: “For several months there was no bombing. Fifteen days after the arrival of my husband (who came to him almost a month after the birth of his son - Sangar), the air attacks began so cruelly and suddenly that we had to run and hide in caves. We were informed that the Soviets had become aware of our presence and now that they have information about the presence of my husband and child, we will not see peace.” The troops of the Soviet Union left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989.
Ahmad Masood is the eldest child and only son of Ahmad Shah Massoud. In September 2001, when he was twelve years old, his father was killed by al-Qaeda. After this incident, he and his five sisters went to Iran. Massoud completed primary and secondary school in Iran, traveled to the UK to continue his education, and studied for one year at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He received his BA in Military Studies from King's College London in 2015 and his MA in International Politics from the City University of London in 2016.
EXPLANATION: Ahmad Massoud's study in the UK has been abused by his adversaries for their propaganda purposes, who sometimes refer to him as the "British spy". But the path he has chosen and is following today is very far from British policy in Afghanistan. What can be in common between the architect of the project called "Taliban" and the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the founder of the anti-Taliban resistance?
POLITICAL VIEWS
In November 2016, Ahmad Masood returned to Afghanistan and was appointed director of the Masood Foundation, which has offices in several countries around the world, including Tajikistan. On December 5, 2019, he was introduced as his father's successor at his grave in an area called Saricha of the Panjshir Valley.
He reiterates his father's idea of a "Switzerland model" for internal power relations in Afghanistan and states that the decentralization of government and the rapid deconcentration of power from Kabul to the country's provinces provide a good way to allocate resources and centralize power, and the result is prosperity and stability for all in the country.
EXPLANATION: Ahmad Massoud is now being accused by some Facebook users, even Tajiks, of being an "Islamist" and "Ikhwanist" and an adherent of "Afghanism and Islamism" that the Taliban are persecuting. But from his conversations with the media, one can conclude that he does not accept the radical “Afghanism and Islamism” of the Taliban and considers this group to be a foreign mercenary army. He dreams of a free Afghanistan, where moderate Islam rules and the rights of all nationalities, religions, men, and women are equal. What his father believed in and fought for.
SECOND RESISTANCE
Massoud II officially entered politics in March 2019 when he opposed peace talks between the Taliban and the United States. His criticism was related to the fact that the interests of the Afghan people are ignored in the peace process, and he believed that the Taliban, as before, was and remains a mono-ethnic and extremist group and a foreign intelligence tool.
In September of that year, he announced that he would create a new coalition of former Northern Alliance mujahideen leaders that fought the Taliban under his father's leadership in the 1990s and established a republican regime in Afghanistan. This coalition called the front of resistance or the second resistance, was a military-political force that appeared in Afghanistan before the Americans left.
EXPLANATION: None of the former leaders of the Northern Alliance such as Abdurab Rasul Sayyaf, Mohammad Mohaqqiq, Karim Khalili, Ustad Atamuhammad Nur, Amir Ismailkhan, Abdurshid Dostum, and others who fought under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud during the First Resistance (1996-2001) .) did not join the Ahmad Massoud Resistance Front. They all left the country when Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban, and Ahmad Massoud was left alone on the battlefield.
THE FALL OF THE PANJSHER
On August 15, 2021, with the fall of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, the Taliban gained control of 33 provinces of the country. The only province that remained free was Panjshir, where the anti-Taliban forces were stationed. There, on August 17, the second resistance to the Taliban was announced for the first time. This day went down in the history of Afghanistan as the day of the creation of the National Resistance Front led by Ahmad Massoud.
He entered into negotiations with the Taliban to prevent war and bloodshed, but they demanded that he surrender. He said: “If war is inevitable in this situation, then we will fight. We defeated the Soviet Union, we can also defeat the Taliban.”
On August 31, the first clashes between the Taliban and the Resistance Front began in the vicinity of Panjshir. On September 6, the Taliban captured the main valley. Ahmad Massoud suffered his first military defeat.
EXPLANATION: The fall of the Panjshir was a 20-year program carried out by the Pakistan, USA, and Karzai-Ghani intelligence with the cooperation of well-known Panjshir figures, whose names we do not deem necessary to mention here. If during the first resistance the neighboring provinces of Panjshir - Badakhshan, Baghlan and Takhar - were under the control of Ahmad Shah Massoud, then this time they were under the rule of the Taliban. For 20 years, foreign intelligence in these provinces, which were considered the birthplace of the anti-Taliban resistance, launched a plan of talibanization with the help of local mercenaries. Panjshir was completely surrounded. And the most bitter truth is that since 2019, all the Panjshirs in power - from the first vice president to the minister of defense - not only did not help Ahmad Massoud and did not take him seriously, but did everything to prevent him. But he got out of it all. History has crossed everyone out and made him it's choice.
After the fall of the Panjshir, Ahmad Masud left Afghanistan. American intelligence reported that he had taken refuge in Tajikistan. The media sometimes report his presence in Iran.
INSTEAD OF AN AFTERWORD
But wherever he is, he is a symbol of the stability of the Afghan people's resistance. The only hope of the people and the light at the end of the dark tunnel. The only person who was not engaged in corruption and looting of people is not a collaborator of extremists and terrorists.
Eleven months after the fall of Panjshir, the anti-Taliban resistance led by Ahmad Massoud is back on its feet and is now fighting the Taliban in the historic Hindu Kush - Panjshir, Andrab, Takhar, and Badakhshan.
Meanwhile, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan was recognized as the only anti-Taliban force by the countries of the world. The Taliban, who declared that there was no resistance, openly and secretly negotiated with its representatives. The great achievement of the Resistance Front was that not a single country in the world recognized the Taliban in 11 months.
At one time, Ahmad Massoud invited Western countries, especially the United States, Britain, and France, to support the resistance of the Afghan people. But these countries have made it clear that they are cooperating with the Taliban and will not support its military adversaries. As expected.
But when the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, this country turned into a major base for international terrorist organizations, primarily Al-Qaeda and ISIS. These organizations sometimes fire missiles at countries neighboring Afghanistan. The Taliban supports terrorist organizations and this fact has become clear to a certain extent, which has caused concern in the countries of Central Asia and Russia.
The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ahmad Massoud, allegedly held in the city of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, is an important event for the recognition of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan as the only force against terrorism and extremism. The responsibility that Ahmad Shah Massoud had before the world fell on the shoulders of his son - Ahmad Massoud.
Likewise, Massoud II and his Resistance Front are becoming an important factor in the great power struggle in Central Asia, which some have called the “New Great Game”. And perhaps this was the divine wisdom of the only legacy of the legendary Ahmad Shah Massoud.
The Advisory board of "Sangar" congratulates the respected Ahmed Masoud on his birthday and wishes him good health and success in his historical responsibility.
Happy birthday, Young Emir!
