{"id":27653,"date":"2021-08-26T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27653"},"modified":"2021-08-26T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:45:53","slug":"afghanistan-the-undefeated-panjshir-valley-an-hour-from-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/26\/afghanistan-the-undefeated-panjshir-valley-an-hour-from-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: The ‘undefeated’ Panjshir Valley – an hour from Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several thousand anti-Taliban fighters are reported to be holding out against the Taliban in a remote valley with a narrow entrance – little more than 30 miles or so from the capital Kabul.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s not the first time the dramatic and imposing Panjshir Valley has been a flashpoint in Afghanistan’s recent turbulent history – having been a stronghold against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and the Taliban in the ’90s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The group holding out there now – the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) – recently reminded the world of the valley’s strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The Red Army, with its might, was unable to defeat us… And the Taliban also 25 years ago… they tried to take over the valley and they failed, they faced a crushing defeat,” Ali Nazary, the NRF’s head of foreign relations, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several thousand anti-Taliban fighters are reported to be holding out against the Taliban in a remote valley with a narrow entrance – little more than 30 miles or so from the capital Kabul. It’s not the first time the dramatic and imposing Panjshir Valley has been a flashpoint in Afghanistan’s recent turbulent history – having been a stronghold against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and the Taliban in the ’90s. The group holding out there now – the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) – recently reminded the world of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27655,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions\/27655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}