By Gistflash News
Sept 1, 2021
A Taliban senior leader, Mullah Amir Khan Mutaqi has called for peaceful solution of the standoff in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, urged the people of Panjshir to help stabilise peace and security in the country.
“Panjshir as a part of Afghanistan deserves to live in peace. The Islamic Emirate has declared general amnesty and there is no reason to fight.
“War is enough, let’s stop fighting and live in peace,’’ Mutaqi said in a message on Wednesday.
Panjshir, the only province among Afghanistan’s 34 provinces which has remained out of Taliban’s control since the fall of major cities including capital Kabul.
Since Monday, there were reports of skirmishes between Taliban forces and the anti-Taliban fighters in areas bordering Panjshir Valley.
Ahmad Masoud, the son of late anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masoud, who was leading an anti-Taliban resistance in Panjshir Valley, has reportedly said that he was going to find negotiated solution to the standoff.
He said, though in the meantime, he urged the people to be ready to defend the valley.
Mutaqi in his message said that the Taliban in spite of deploying troops around Panjshir would continue dialogue.
Xinhua/NAN
