MOSCOW, 17 Sep. Roads leading to the Afghan province of Panjshir have been reopened and telecommunications services have been reopened, according to Tolo News, citing local residents and authorities. According to the channel, the roads were closed for about 20 days, during which no communication services were provided. Electricity in the region is still not working. «Telecommunication networks have been working since yesterday. A serious problem is the power outage, which has not yet been resolved,» local journalist Mohammad Wasi Almas told the channel. According to some residents of Panjshir, «90%» their fellow countrymen fled their homes and fled to the mountains after clashes broke out between the Taliban * and resistance forces.
The Taliban decided to send humanitarian aid to Panjshir «There is an economic crisis, people are in economic hardship,» said a local resident. Local security officer Mawlavi Sana Sangin Fatih assured the media that the situation in Panjshir is normal. According to him, the information about the «lack of electricity and food» in the province is untrue, the service employees are protecting ordinary citizens, including women and children. In early August, the Taliban * stepped up their offensive against Afghan government forces, entered Kabul on August 15 and the next day they announced that the war was over. The last two weeks of August from the airport of Kabul, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of Western citizens and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left Kabul airport, ending a nearly 20-year US military presence in Afghanistan. On September 6, the Taliban announced that Panjshir, the last of 34 Afghan provinces, had come under their control in fighting. The next day, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan was announced, headed by Mohammad Hasan Akhund, who served as foreign minister during the first rule of the Taliban * and has been under UN sanctions since 2001. * Terrorist group banned in Russia
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