Saleh Writes to UN on 'Catastrophe' in Valley as Taliban Close in on Panjshir

​By a staff reporter :


 Afghanistan’s acting president Amrullah Saleh has written to the United Nations on the humanitarian crisis in Panjshir — the last Afghanistan bastion protected from the Taliban — asking national and international aid agencies to immediately mobilise their resources to end the “war crimes” committed by the hardliners. Panjshir is witnessing an intense battle between the Taliban and resistance forces. At least 17 people were killed and 41 injured during celebratory firing by the Taliban in Kabul on Friday to celebrate gains on the battlefield in Panjshir province, which still remains under the control of anti-Taliban fighters.