Amrullah Saleh Confident of Retaining Anti-Taliban Bastion Panjshir as Insurgents Close in

Afghanistan’s ‘acting’ President Amrullah Saleh highlighted the security situation in the Panjshir valley, where the anti-Taliban forces are amassing and the Taliban find themselves struggling to quell the resistance. It’s an area which has an exceptional reputation,” Amrullah Saleh told CNN-news18. While UAE granted asylum to Ghani, Amrullah Saleh declared himself ‘caretaker’ president of Afghanistan and has joined hands with the Panjshir resistance movement against the Taliban. Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul in the Hindu Kush, has been a resistance stronghold for decades. Taliban forces tried to enter Panjshir Valley through a pass from the adjoining Badakhshan province but were unable to do so.