The western news is reporting on the Panjshir Resistance.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-08-27/panjshir-valley-leads-taliban-resistance-in-afghanistan-video
Fox is lagging. 8 days ago. Is this intentional.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-resistance-afghanistans-panjshir-valley
Indian news is still leading.
https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/panjshir-resistance-against-taliban-can-re-emerge-as-key-to-india-s-afghanistan-policy/804701
The Taliban have sent thousands at the Panjshir Resistance and have been beaten back. They are not admitting losses or defeats but their human wave tactics against Resistance forces on the high ground generally produces 50-60% casualty rate.
The Panjshir resistance is negotiating with the Taliban at Charikar that is 6 miles from Bagram air base. Its is hard to see how negotiation delegates of either side would get far though enemy occupied territory, the Taliban and ISIS K are not known for giving reliable safe passage, so it looks like Charikar is the front line. They are not taking Bagram airbase for a good reason. Without western help they can’t hold it.
They have taken the provinces of Kapisa and Parwān to the east of Bagram. I suspect the Panjshir Resistance is taking but not holding territory. This is about killing the Taliban not holding ground were you do not have an advantage. A war of ambush. As they fall back the civilians fall back with them. So they will need to feed a lot of people. They may have large stockpiles of food in the Panjshir valley mines.
The Taliban and those that don’t think you can win a war anymore are playing down the Panjshir Resistance’s hopes and successes. India has people, on the anti Pakistan right, that are playing it up. If there was a way to get troops and supply in, India would do it but Pakistan and China blocks overt lines of supply.
In the next week the west must decide whether it is going to abandon Panjshir, the five lions, or support it. With the right support and resources the Resistance could take Kabul. Its done it before against the Soviets and a pervious Taliban government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjshir_conflict
2 replies on “Western news is reporting on the Panjshir Resistance.”
lol the US intel community companied about about CIA intelligence left in a building out side Kabul near the Salt Pit prison. The Taliban’s intelligence people rushed to search the building. The Bunker buster bomb wrecked them minutes later. Boom.
To take the sniper on the hill you need a 9 to 1 ratio. The Talban don’t have enough men to take the northern alliance stronghold of Panjshir. Support grows daily.
https://youtu.be/1IO-HPx2Zj8