KABUL, Jan 8 Media reports of Taliban fighting * not with resistance in Panjshir are true, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told RIA Novosti. «Resistance exists only on social networks, not in reality in Afghanistan,» Mujahid said. Afghan agency Aamaj News, citing a source, said on Friday that the troops of the Afghan movement » The Taliban «* are fighting representatives of the National Resistance Front in the mountainous province of Panjshir, northeast of Kabul. Earlier, a spokesman for the front told the agency that resistance fighters attacked the Taliban in the vicinity of the town of Jabal us-Siraj on the border of Parwan province with Panjshir. In early November, spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Ali Maisam Nazari said that the organization, led by Ahmad Masood Jr. recruits more and more people to fight the Taliban. According to Nazari, members of the front are located not only in Panjshir, but also in the provinces of Kapitsa, Parwan, Badakhshan, Balkh, Baghlan. In early August, the Taliban intensified their offensive against the government forces of Afghanistan, entered Kabul on August 15 and the next day declared that the war over. The last two weeks of August from the Kabul airport, 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 the Kabul airport, ending the 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 movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities Taliban say they have almost completed the formation of a new army
