The wars between the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan and the Taliban* government have led to great tragedies. These wars have been going on since May 4 in the provinces of Panjshir, Baghlan, and Takhar.
Source: Sputnik Tajikistan
Abdulhasib Nabard, a member of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, told Sputnik Tajikistan that after the clashes began in the Dara region of Panjshir province, many civilians fled to the mountains to save their lives and became victims of shelling and starvation.
“Three brothers, Aynulla, Lutfulla, and Karzai (in the fotoes), aged 18 to 27, from the same family from the village of Tunkhu, Dara district, died one after another. The first, a peasant, was killed by shrapnel, the second, a teacher, and the third, a schoolboy, died of starvation. Although the Taliban urged people to surrender, the two brothers accepted starvation and death,” said Abdul Hasib Nabard.
Clashes in the Abdullahel valley in the Dara district of Panjshir province began when the Taliban came to arrest Mawlawi Abdulwaro Qayumi. The latter led the holiday prayer on May 2, while the Taliban declared May 1 as Eid al-Fitr.
But between the Taliban, who came to arrest him, and the local Taliban under the command of Malik Khan, the intelligence chief of the Panjshir police, there was a verbal altercation that resulted in the death of a civilian named Mirzajan.
Malik Khan's men killed several Taliban who arrived from the province's center, the rest fled. Malik Khan joined the resistance. That night, the Dara and Obshore districts of Panjshir province, which were under the influence of Malik Khan, were liberated from the Taliban.
DEATH AND HUNGER
This defeat caused a reaction in Kabul, and the Taliban defense minister, Mullah Yaqub, sent about 5,000 additional forces to Panjshir.
On May 8, Taliban forces stormed the Abdullahel Valley. In fear of the Taliban, its inhabitants left their homes and took refuge in neighboring villages and high mountains, the snow on which has not yet melted.
Forces from the Afghan National Resistance Front, based in the camps in the valley, joined Malik Khan's (in the photo) forces and went into action, inflicting heavy casualties on the Taliban.
In the meantime, according to Abdulhasib Nabard, Mawlawi Qudratullah, the governor of Panjshir, came to the Abdullahel valley and urged the people to return to their homes.
“He said he personally guarantees their safety,” he said. “People, tired of cold and hunger, all went downstairs, and the Taliban announced that part of the resistance forces had joined the Islamic Emirate,” he said.
According to the Afghan National Resistance Front, about 17 civilians have been killed in the fighting in the Abdullahel Valley to date, and the resistance forces have suffered no casualties.
Front spokesman Sibgatullah Ahmadi told Sputnik Tajikistan that the dead had nothing to do with the resistance forces.
“These were teachers, drivers, peasants, students, builders, in general, ordinary people shot by the Taliban in the street or while working in the field, and even one person was torn to pieces with an ax. We are documenting all these crimes against humanity and will appeal to international organizations,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Taliban forces, which entered the Panjshir Valley, attacked several more bases of the Resistance Front. One of them was the valley of Shutul, where two resistance soldiers, Mahfuzkhan and Raqibkhan, the brother of commander Waziri Shutul, were killed.
But Mullah Ghaffar, deputy commander of the Badr Corps of the Taliban in Kandahar, was also killed during the fighting at the Chamal Warda base in the Rukh region. The resistance front also confirmed the killing of three resistance members.
ROPE OF DODILLA
Scary stories are also told in Andarabs. On May 9, fresh Taliban forces shot and killed four youths, Haji Zakir, Mohammad Javid, Nurullah, and Abdul Hashim, in the Qasan Valley.
In the foto: Waziri Shutul and his brother Raqibkhan (from the right)
Sources tell of a commander named Lang Dadilla (Lame, he has one leg missing) from the village of Khuch in the Banu district, who always carries a rope in the back of his car, and wherever he goes he hangs people by their legs to make them confess about their possession of weapons.
Along with Panjshir, Taliban forces attacked the Andarabs region of Baghlan province.
Hasan Andarabi, one of the commanders of the National Resistance Front in Andarab, told Sputnik Tajikistan that the Taliban sent about 5,000 additional troops to the Andarabi districts - Deh Salah, Banu, and Puli Hisor - to crush resistance.
“They attacked the Kassan (Deh Salah), Anamak (Puli Hisor), and Kishnabad (Banu) valleys, but in most cases, they were defeated and retreated,” he said.
Meanwhile, Sibgatullah Ahmadi, a spokesman for the National Resistance Front, said that in the Serdara of Kishnabad area of the Banu district, the resistance had lost two commanders.
"Asadullah Andarabi and Shermukhammad Andarabi, two front commanders, were killed in an uneven battle with Taliban forces along with six other soldiers. During the clashes, 17 Taliban were also killed, and the number of wounded is unknown,” he said.
According to him, in the Andarab wars, 8 resistance were killed and 7 more wounded, but the number of killed and wounded Taliban was much higher.
SURRENDERED
Varsaj, a district of Takhar province, is located in the neighborhood of Panjshir and Andarab, the cradle of anti-Taliban resistance. The first clashes between the Resistance Front and the Taliban took place here in early May when a number of regions of the region were captured by the National Resistance Front.
One of the Front commanders, who did not want to be named, said that the reason for the fall was that a local Taliban commander named Darabbai left the Taliban and joined the Front, while another, Talha, was detained.
“Their soldiers, who controlled the areas of Ayut, Hawzi Vighnon, and Pajak, drove out the not local Taliban and joined the resistance themselves,” he said.
First, the Taliban sent ground and air forces from Takhar, and then from Kabul, and first of all, they shot four civilians.
Mohammad Azim, a 65-year-old gray-haired man, the former head of the district administration of Varsaj was arrested by the Taliban in the village of Aymand. First, they publicly shot him in the arm, leg, and thigh, then they loaded him into a Ranger, played drum on his forehead, then took him to the police station, humiliated and mocked him for about an hour, and, finally, shot him in the forehead and threw him on edge of the road.
The fighting in the Hindu Kush is still going on. According to the Afghan National Resistance Front, 47 people died in the last battles, eight of whom were resistance fighters. The front estimates the number of Taliban killed at more than 150 people.
The Health Department of the Taliban Defense Ministry officially announced at a May 13 meeting that 84 Taliban militants had been killed and 109 wounded in recent fighting in the Hindu Kush. However, this figure does not include the losses of the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the local Taliban.
Both the Resistance Front and the Taliban have announced that they have yet to find all of their dead in the Hindu Kush mountains.
This war and tragedy continue to this day.
* The organization is under UN sanctions or banned due to terrorist activities.
