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Panjshir, Afghanistan: Resistance then and now
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Panjshir, Afghanistan: Resistance then and now

Comparing the anti-Taliban resistance led by Ahmad Massoud & Amrullah Saleh in the Panjshir valley today to Ahmad Shah Massoud's resistance against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

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Sudarshan Garg (@SudsG5 on Twitter) joins me for a freewheeling, historically grounded discussion about Afghanistan.

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Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh (R)

We look at the anti-Taliban resistance led by Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh in the Panjshir Valley today and compare it with Ahmad Shah Massoud’s legendary resistance, first against the USSR and then against fellow Mujahideen Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Next week’s episode will see the discussion continue into the mid-1990s when the Taliban emerged from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan and became Massoud’s main foe.

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