Taliban cuts off internet in Panjshir valley as resistance forces fight back
The action has purportedly been taken to prevent former vice president Amrullah Saleh from sharing his messages on Twitter.
FollowThe Taliban have shut down the internet in Panjshir valley, said media reports on Sunday as the resistance force seems to be putting up a challenging fight as they inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban in the most recent round of clashes that broke out between the two forces.
The action has purportedly been taken to prevent former vice president Amrullah Saleh from sharing his messages on Twitter.
A tweet by the resistance force revealed on Sunday that the Roshan and Etisalat networks, the telecommunication networks used by the leaders, were also down.
Panjshir is the only Afghanistan province that has not yet fallen to the Taliban. Led by self-styled resistance leader, Amrullah Saleh, the resistance group in Panjshir province too is fiercely fighting back forcing the Sunni Pashtun Taliban group to pull back. The counter-attack is a result of violation of ceasefire by the Taliban in Panjshir, said a report in Hindustan Times.
For the unversed, Saleh declared himself as the legitimate caretaker president of the country after former president Ashraf Ghani fled the country on August 15.
After the deadly terrorist attack that rocked the Kabul airport where more than 180 Afghans lives were lost, Afghanistan’s ousted vice-president Saleh had tweeted, “The world must not bow to terrorism. Let’s not allow Kabul airport to be the site for humiliation of humanity & “rules based world order”. Let’s believe in our collective effort and energy. Defeatist psyche puts you under risk more than terrorists. Don’t die psychologically”.
Saleh had also slammed the Taliban for washing their hands off the massacre and said that they had learnt it from their master Pakistan to deny their links with ISIS.
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