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The leader of a resistance group battling a Taliban offensive in Afghanistan's northern Panjshir Valley said he is in support of clerics in the capital Kabul who have called for an end to the fighting, after a weekend of reported heavy losses.
In a Facebook post Sunday, leader of the National Resistance Front in Afghanistan Ahmad Massoud, said he is ready to talk once the Taliban withdraw troops from Panjshir and the neighboring district of Andarab.Earlier, Taliban spokesman Belal Kareemi told CNN the group's militant fighters had taken all districts of Panjshir province except for the capital of Bazarak and Rokha districts, which remain under NRF control. But resistance fighters appeared to rebut the Taliban's claims.
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