{"id":333733,"date":"2021-09-06T00:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333733"},"modified":"2021-09-06T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:55:19","slug":"taliban-claims-panjshir-valley-entirely-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/taliban-claims-panjshir-valley-entirely-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claims Panjshir Valley entirely captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333738\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Taliban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Taliban.jpg 770w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Taliban-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Taliban-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Taliban-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Taliban-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Taliban on Monday claimed that they had confined the last pocket of confrontation in Afghanistan, the Panjshir Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;With this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war,&#8221; chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month, chasing their lightning-fast rout of Afghanistan&#8217;s army &#8212; and celebrations when the last US troops flew out after 20 years of war &#8212; the Taliban turned to crush the forces defending the mountainous Panjshir Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Resistance Front (NRF) &#8212; made up of anti-Taliban militia and former Afghan security forces &#8212; acknowledged suffering major battlefield losses in Panjshir and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahmad Massoud &#8212; the son of the famous anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud &#8212; as well as leftovers of the Afghan military that withdrew to the Panjshir Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban on Monday claimed that they had confined the last pocket of confrontation in Afghanistan, the Panjshir Valley. &#8220;With this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war,&#8221; chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. Last month, chasing their lightning-fast rout of Afghanistan&#8217;s army &#8212; and celebrations when the last US troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,53],"tags":[14524,14575,1740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333741,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733\/revisions\/333741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}