Taliban blockade Panjshir province, carry out killings: Report

TIL Desk/World/Kabul/ Taliban have imposed a blockade in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, denying residents food and carrying out some extrajudicial killings, a report said.

The Resistance Front in the Panjshir has vowed to declare a parallel government in Afghanistan even as the Taliban recently announced their ‘caretaker government’ in the country. Although the Taliban have seized control of Panjshir this week, sporadic clashes still take place in the valley.

An elderly tribal, who recently fled the province, told that the Taliban are carrying out some extrajudicial executions of civilians and the list of abuses carried out by the outfit is growing. The Afghan elder said that his people pressed him to leave the area after Taliban members warned his family.

‘The eight civilians killed in Panjshir three days earlier were neither supporters of the resistance or the Taliban,’ he said. Highlighting the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Panjshir valley, former Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh last week had called on the United Nations to do its utmost to prevent the Taliban’s onslaught into the resistance stronghold.