KABUL (Realist English). For several days, fierce fighting has been going on in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan between the Taliban and fighters of local resistance groups, according to the head of the Center for the Study of Afghan Politics, Andrey Serenko.
According to his sources, armed groups of Pashtuns rose against the Taliban in the provinces of Nangarhar, Khost and Kunar. They are not part of the Afghan National Resistance Front (NFSA) under the command of Ahmad Masood and operate independently.
“The leadership of the Taliban* is not too worried about the combat activity of the resistance forces in northern Afghanistan, in which the Tajiks play the main role, but it is seriously concerned about the decline in the level of support from the Pashtuns, which is manifested, in particular, in the appearance of armed Pashtun resistance in the eastern regions of the country,” the sources note.
The head of the Center for the Study of Afghan Politics, citing sources, explained that this is why the Taliban are trying by any means to block information about the appearance of the “Eastern Front” of the anti-Taliban resistance, which is formed today by the Pashtuns of Nangarhar, Khost and Kunar.
* an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation
