DNA Special: Pakistan behind the victory of Taliban in Panjshir?

The Taliban has announced that it has now captured Panjshir. The people around the world who like peace had one last hope from the Northern Alliance that perhaps they could take on the Taliban. But now that last hope has also been shattered. In this war, fighters and many leaders of the Northern Alliance have given martyrdom. But the biggest thing in this is that the Taliban was able to win this war so easily because it got help from Pakistan's army. A little while ago, Iran expressed grief over the martyrdom of the leaders of the Northern Alliance in one of its statements and said that it will investigate the role of Pakistan in this war. And today through Zee News, we are also raising the demand that there should be an international inquiry into what the Pakistan army was doing with the Taliban in Panjshir? But before that, we give you an update on the battle of Panjshir.

Panjshir was the last stronghold of the anti-Taliban faction. But it seems that now this last fort has also collapsed. In Panjshir, the fighters of the Northern Alliance were fighting the Taliban for the past several days. But now the Northern Alliance has almost lost this battle.

Although many leaders of the Northern Alliance say that their fight against the Taliban is still going on and they have not backed down from the front. But the pictures which have come from Panjshir show that Panjshir has now come under the claws of the Taliban. After capturing Panjshir, Taliban fighters entered the Governor's House of Panjshir and raised the flag of Islamic emirates of Afghanistan there.

However, the Northern Alliance has denied the Taliban's claims of victory. The leader of this anti-Taliban faction, Ahmed Masood, has said that he will fight against the Taliban till the last drop of blood. But during this time he has made the biggest allegation on Pakistan. He has said that the Pakistan Army is helping the Taliban in Panjshir. With the help of Pakistan, the Taliban is bombing Panjshir and doing drone attacks.

Panjshir, which the Taliban has never been able to capture before today, which the Mujahideen could not capture in the 1980s and 90s, which the US and Soviet Union forces could never capture, how did the Taliban capture it so quickly this time? The simple answer is that all this happened with the help of Pakistan. Experts who used to say that it will take at least three months for the Taliban to take possession of Kabul were proved wrong. The Taliban did that in just 6 days. 

The reason was that in a hurry to escape from Afghanistan, America left a number of modern weapons worth millions in the hands of the Taliban and the Taliban captured Kabul in less than a week. Similarly, there was a claim about Panjshir that the Taliban would probably never be able to capture it. But Panjshir also came into the hands of the Taliban in just 20 days.

Here, Pakistan helped the Taliban. All key leaders of the Northern Alliance claim that the Taliban is fighting the battle of Panjshir together with the Pakistan Army. Drones of the Pakistani Air Force are constantly flying over Panjshir and they are dropping bombs on different areas.

There are seven districts in Panjshir province and this whole area is surrounded by the high mountains of Hindukush. Therefore it is very difficult for any outside army to enter Panjshir. The only way to enter Panjshir is through the Panjshir river. But when an army tries to enter from here then it is directly targeted by the soldiers sitting on the mountains. That is why even today, the biggest armies could not dare to enter Panjshir.

One way to attack Panjshir is by airstrikes here. Now Pakistan cannot directly send its Air Force to attack here. That's why Pakistan's army is using drones. These drones are capable of aiming accurately and attack only on the chosen place. A drone is the best solution if you want to kill any leader in Panjshir without coming into the eyes of the world. Since the Taliban doesn't have drone technology, they are taking help from Pakistan.

Pakistan denies that its soldiers are present in Panjshir but the world knows the track record of Pakistan. When the Kargil war started in 1999, for many days Pakistan did not admit that its army was involved in it. Then Pakistan had said that terrorists have revolted against India and it has no hand in it. But Pakistan's army was involved in the Kargil war from the beginning. And now Pakistan is doing the same in Panjshir.