Panjshir Valley: Ahmed Masood, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, the main opposition faction of the Taliban, has said that the Taliban has used thousands of tonnes of wheat received on humanitarian grounds from India for its fighters and their families. The Taliban haven’t really distributed it among the hungry and needy. India has decided to send 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan under the United Nations World Food Programme. Many consignments of wheat have been sent through Pakistan to save the people of the war-ravaged country from starvation.
According to a news in the Indian Express, Ahmed Masood, the 33-year-old son of Ahmed Shah Masood, who is called the Sher of Panjshir, said in an exclusive interview to him from an unknown place in Panjshir Valley that ‘I do not want power and my fight is for justice and freedom’. Masood said that the Taliban is not distributing the help from India properly. They give more to the people of one area than others on the basis of ethnicity. This is the first time an Afghan leader has leveled such a serious allegation against the Taliban. Masood’s father Ahmed Shah Masood was assassinated a few days before the 9/11 attacks in America.
Masood said that Afghanistan has once again gone back to the ‘dark phase’. Taliban people are sheltering Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. They are roaming freely and working here. Referring to the US attack that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, he said the presence of the al-Qaeda leader in the heart of Kabul at the time of the attack was “not surprising”. He also attacked Pakistan for giving protection to the Taliban. Masood said that this is such a fire with which Pakistan played and we will see that sooner or later it will retaliate on them. Masood said the Taliban regime is a safe haven for Jaish-e-Mohammed and several other terrorist groups. Which are a threat to India and all the countries of this region.
