The Taliban* have lost dozens of militants over the past three days during clashes with the National Resistance Front in the Panjshir Valley.
PANJSHIR, June 11 - Sangar, Hasib Sangar. In general, the Taliban have suffered heavy human and financial losses in the Panjshir Wars over the past month, which may soon force them to leave the valley.
In the photo: Mohammad Naseem Nouri
Shamsuddin Hamed, a member of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), told the Sangar website that fighting has intensified across Panjshir since the appointment of Mohammad Naseem Nouri, a native of Girishk district, Helmand province, as provincial governor.
“The Taliban leadership concluded that the former governor, Kari Qudratullah, a resident of the Pariyan district of Panjshir province, showed little desire to go to war with the National Resistance Front, and fired him. The new governor (some sources deny his appointment - Sangar) took the lead in the war to show that he can fight and stepped up military operations throughout the valley against the resistance forces,” Shamsuddin Hamed said.
According to this source, during the past three days, heavy fighting took place in the areas of Dara, Khinj, Rokha, Anaba, Shutul and Paryan, which ended everywhere with heavy defeats for the Taliban.
“The Taliban attacked the Mujahideen strongholds in the camps of Dara, Khinj, Shutul, Chamal Warda, Hesarak, Shaba, Kuhsar and Peshghur from several positions and met with strong resistance from our forces. They do not know the geography of the area and in the first attack they are ambushed, and other attacks are carried out to carry out the bodies of their dead,” he said.
Video: Combat of Commander Abdulhasib Panjsheri
According to him, preliminary data show that the Taliban lost about 100 fighters in Dara, 21 in Khinj, 18 in Shutul, 14 in Anab and 16 in Pariyan.
“Our intelligence reports that in fact the exact number of dead is still unknown, as well as the exact number of wounded. Their losses are greater than we know,” said Shamsuddin Hamed.
The Taliban have lost at least two commanders in recent fighting, including Mohammad Asif Kandahari, a guerrilla commander, and Amir Haidar, a Badri unit commander, who were killed fighting in the Dara region, he said.
“Amir Haydar was the one who killed a group of unarmed young people on Mount Abdullahel and a young girl. He was from the Pachirgam district of Nangarhar province and belonged to the Suleimankhel tribe. He was ambushed and killed along with a number of his men,” he said.
According to a document received from the Anaba emergency hospital, 60 wounded Taliban have been treated here over the past month, mainly from the southern Pashtun provinces such as Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, Nangarhar, Maidan Wardak, Kunar, Farah and others. The Taliban denied the authenticity of the document.
But a source in Panjshir told Sangar that the Taliban had opened an emergency hospital to treat their wounded in the Dashtak village of Rokha district.
“All of its staff have been transferred from Kabul hospitals, especially Chahorsadbistar Hospital, and they are all Pashtuns,” the source said.
According to information provided by the military command of the NRFA to the Sangar website, over the past month, more than 700 Taliban fighters have been killed and the front has lost 48 fighters. According to this source, prominent resistance commander Nuragha Peshghur was severely wounded in recent fighting.
Video: Combat of Commander Waziri Shutul
Observers of the situation say that the Taliban suffered a complete defeat in the first stage of the war in all their offensive operations against the NRFA bases in Panjshir, despite the heavy losses suffered so far, they do not have the slightest achievement.
A source in Panjshir told Sangar that heavy losses among the Pashtun Taliban forced the Taliban military leadership to use Tajik and Uzbek Taliban, in particular the Panjshirs themselves.
“According to the information we have, Qari Fasihuddin, the chief of staff of the Taliban Ministry of Defense, brought about 300 Badakhshan Taliban to Panjshir. It is not known exactly, but the Uzbek Taliban were also brought from Faryab, Saripul and Kunduz. For example, yesterday, a Taliban named Wahidullah from the Yumgan district of Badakhshan province was killed in a battle at the Chamal Warda base. An Uzbek Talib from Faryab also died. Our sources say the non-Pashtun Taliban are demoralized and especially unwilling to fight the resistance and try not to be killed,” he said.
According to various sources, the Taliban have about 25,000 fighters in Panjshir alone, and their forces in the Hindu Kush, taking into account the Andarobs region of Baghlan province, currently number about 40,000 people. According to credible information provided to Sangar by Taliban sources, there are 3,500 Taliban in schools, mosques and residential buildings in Pariyan district alone, fed by the local population.
Observers say the situation is such that if resistance shifts from defensive to offensive, the Taliban will lose full control of the situation.
“There are 27 resistance bases in Panjshir alone, and if each base kills three Taliban a day, then the group's losses will exceed 2,000 people a month, which will be a tragedy for the Taliban and force them to leave the valley. De facto, Panjshir is on the verge of falling into the hands of the resistance, but it seems that the leadership of the Front has not yet decided to start an offensive war,” he said.
Panjshir was the last province to be captured by the Taliban in September last year and, together with the Andaraby region in Baghlan province, is an area not entirely under Taliban control. Most of these territories are under the control of the NRFA.
The commander-in-chief of the Panjshir Resistance Front is Khalid Amiri, a former Afghan National Army officer.
* The organization is under UN sanctions or banned due to terrorist activities.
