FRANCE 24 spoke to Ali Maisam Nazary, head of foreign relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), an anti-Taliban military alliance which recently set up a parallel government in response to the Taliban taking power. Nazary claimed that the country's new rulers "are not victorious" in Afghanistan's north-eastern Panjshir region, that the "resistance is continuing" and that the NRF actually controls "more than half" of Panjshir, despite Taliban "propaganda" to the contrary.
Ali Maisam Nazary added that Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban NRF, "is inside the country", is not planning on leaving Afghanistan, and is "going to continue resistance until we achieve freedom and we achieve victory."
Nazary also told FRANCE 24 that "the Taliban cannot represent the people of Afghanistan", and "the people of Afghanistan do not want the Taliban to represent them."
