Mohammad Mohaqiq, leader of the Islamic Unity Party of the People of Afghanistan and head of the political committee of the National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan, said in an exclusive interview that if no path to negotiations with the Taliban is found, the Council’s supporters will turn to armed resistance against the Taliban. The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan, comprising influential political leaders from the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek ethnic groups, was formed in exile in 2022 …
Families of several prisoners in Bagram prison told Independent Persian that in the past three months, the possibility of meeting prisoners has been limited, and violence, mistreatment, psychological torture, and starvation of prisoners have increased. An Independent Persian reporter spoke with relatives of three prisoners held at Bagram prison, located north of Kabul. All of them reported that the prison's sanitary conditions are poor and worrying, visits with relatives have been restricted, and prisoners are not provided with suffi…
Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, said in an exclusive interview with me for Independent Persian that after a year of military struggle against the Taliban, the Front has reassessed its strategy and now its fighters are "everywhere." Massoud said: "With the experience of the past year, which was successful and inflicted significant damage on the Taliban, we also lost many dear ones. With the invaluable experience we gained, we have reassessed our strategy in recent months and reached a st…
I interviewed Hazrat Ali in May 2023 in Vienna, Austria. Hazrat Ali, the commander of a 1,000-strong unit of local forces who were present in the Tora Bora battle to capture Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in November and December 2001, said in an exclusive interview with Independent Persian that the mountains of Afghanistan are now free of foreign terrorists because they have moved into the cities and are present within the Taliban's security structures. The operation to capture Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, which took …
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