The Taliban tied the surrender of the Panjshir rebels in four hours

Desk report:  The Taliban have taken control of Kabul after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. But the Taliban have not yet captured Panjshir, the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. Amrullah Saleh, the vice president of the Afghan government, has declared rebellion in the far-flung province of Panjshir. He is accompanied by General Bismillah Mohammadi, Minister of Defense of the Gani government, and Ahmed Masood, son of the late Mujahideen Commander Shah Ahmad Masood. They have announced that they will continue to fight against the Taliban. But the Taliban have given them time to surrender. According to an international media report, the Taliban have announced a final fight against them if they do not surrender within four hours. The report added that the Taliban currently has a large stockpile of US-supplied weapons. According to one estimate, the United States provided the Afghan army with 600,000 light weapons, more than 70,000 state-of-the-art anti-mine vehicles, 4,600 Humvees, more than 20,000 grenades, night vision goggles and manpacks. Experts believe that all of America’s sophisticated weapons stockpiles are in the hands of the Taliban at the moment. “We will not allow the Taliban to enter Panjshir,” a Panjshir resident told AFP. With all our might and power we will resist them and fight against them. Zahir Agbar, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Tajikistan and a former military official, has backed Vice President Amrullah’s declaration of rebellion against the Taliban. In an interview with Reuters, Agbar said that if anyone came to take possession of Panjshir, the people there would resist. However, the Tajik ambassador to Afghanistan, who has backed the insurgency against the Taliban, indicated that a compromise could be reached with the Taliban if they so wished. For this, a coalition government must be formed in Afghanistan. All Afghans must be accommodated there. But the question is whether the Taliban will agree. The British media The Guardian says that fighting in Panjshir may be the only solution. There is anger within the Taliban over its inability to defeat Panjshir under the previous regime. Having established themselves internationally as a political group, they have come to Kabul Masnad to become stronger this time. As a result, the Panjshir rebels could be stopped by the huge power of the Taliban.