Taliban Regime Hides Behind Forced Confessions As Afghan Resistance Grows From Within

Once again, the Taliban Regime has turned to its well-worn script of pointing fingers at Pakistan whenever its grip on power is challenged. Its latest move is the public display of a so-called confession from Brig Gen Allah Dad Fedaee, staged to invent a Pakistani link to the resistance. Statements extracted under duress are tools of propaganda, not evidence. A regime that holds power through fear, force and coercion has no standing to offer forced admissions as proof of anything.

The Taliban’s own history exposes the hypocrisy. For two decades, they fought US and NATO forces across Afghanistan and celebrated that campaign as a rightful struggle for their homeland. Yet today, the same group labels every Afghan who rises against it as a puppet of foreign powers.

The question writes itself. Were the Taliban’s assaults on Republic and NATO forces in Kabul, Kunduz, Baghlan and Herat directed from Pakistani soil? If those fighters came from Afghan villages, then the AUF, AFF and NRF are now doing exactly the same thing, only this time against the Taliban.

From Panjshir to Laghman, Nuristan and further afield, the resistance fronts are an Afghan answer to Taliban oppression, exclusion from political life and governance that has failed its people. Afghans need no outside direction to stand against a regime that strips them of fundamental rights, crushes every voice of dissent and keeps power in the hands of a narrow few.

As the resistance gains ground, expect the Taliban’s foreign-hand narrative to become a near-daily routine.

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