The Taliban suffered an unprecedented defeat with heavy loss of life in the recent Panjshir battles.
HINDUKUSH, April 5 - Sangar, Hasib Sangari. Observers say this is their first and biggest defeat since the fall of Panjshir last September.
Aminjan Hesarak, also known as Aminjan Marashtan, commanded the forces of the National Resistance Front and brought this victory to the anti-Taliban side. He told the Sangar correspondent that the Taliban attack took place in three stages and lasted for two days.
“First, on the night of April 1, a group of 60 Taliban from the provinces of Zabul and Kandahar arrived at our camp in the Pne Valley. We already had information, and we left the camp and took up positions around it. That night the Taliban spent the night in our camp. The next day, at 1 pm, when it got warmer and they left the camp, we launched an attack from all four sides,” Aminjan Hesarak said.
According to his data, out of the first group of 60 militants, only three survived the encirclement, and the second group of about 20-30 militants arrived at 3 pm.
“They were also attacked. One part was killed, another fled, and the third remained, fleeing after dark. Meanwhile, the third group, which had arrived at night and wanted to attack from behind, was also taken by surprise. Our guys, who already knew about the arrival of the third group, climbed to the top, and this group was also ambushed,” Aminjan Hesarak said.
According to this commander, not a single one of his soldiers was killed or wounded, but the Taliban suffered very heavy losses, so much so that after the first day they reported to him about 72 dead and it is not known how many there were later, because the bodies of the dead are still found among the rocks and caves in the mountains. At the same time, about 20 Taliban were captured by the Resistance Front.
A source at the Panjshir River Basin Authority told Sangar that he saw six Taliban corpses in one of the rooms, wrapped in blankets.
Meanwhile, another interlocutor of Sangar from the Dara district, said that he saw with his own eyes how 16 Taliban "rangers" left through the Abdullakhel valley to the Hesarak valley.
“They suffered so many losses that they sent an armed caravan. The Taliban told the people that we will not touch you, we just came to take out our dead. They just found only two wounded and two killed. 15 of them are still missing,” he said.
Meanwhile, local sources reported that Sami Osmani, the commander of the resistance, was killed and another of his fighters was wounded.
“They were in their homes in the village of Kuhi Talkha, Bazarak district. As soon as the war starts, they think that the enemy attacked from the front and the Taliban attacked from behind, and the young man who had the PK was killed, and the other three teachers of the Kuhi Talkha school were arrested by the Taliban," the source said.
However, the details of the recent Panjshir War are still unclear. Sources have previously reported the assassination of a key Taliban commander close to Mullah Yaqub, the Taliban defense minister, but his identity is still unknown.
Qari Fasihuddin, the Taliban's defense ministry chief of staff, arrived in Panjshir yesterday and is currently at the provincial administration building.
The war in the Pne valley of the Hesarak valley of Panjshir province is the largest conflict in the history of the second Taliban government since the defeat of the National Resistance Front in Panjshir last September. According to recent reports, the conflict has now subsided and calm reigns in the region.
Earlier, the Resistance Front announced that with the advent of spring, it would begin operations throughout Afghanistan.
*The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
