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The State Department said that it would not support “violent opposition toward the Taliban government” in a statement to The Foreign Desk Thursday.
The response by the department came following a successful ambush by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan against Taliban fighters in the Khost district of the Baghlan province in the northern part of Afghanistan.
The statement emailed to The Foreign Desk by an official spokesperson for the State Department shocked many who viewed the recent victory as a small yet critical gain against the Taliban government.
“We are monitoring the recent uptick in violence closely,” the State Department spokesperson said. “We call on all sides to exercise restraint and to engage. This is the only way that Afghanistan can confront its many challenges. We want to see the emergence of stable and sustainable political dispensation via peaceful means.”
The U.S. is “not supporting organized violent opposition to the Taliban, and we would discourage other powers from doing so as well,” the spokesperson added.
The official response from the State Department sent deep concerns among many Americans, foreign policy analysts, human rights organizations, and others who have monitored the movements of the NRF, calling on the international community to send humanitarian and military aid to support resistance fighters. With the NRF trying to lobby the American government for military equipment and funds to match the Taliban and their forces, the recent statement is sure to undercut those lobbying efforts.
“The National Resistance Font (NRF) is not fighting a civil war to restrain its efforts but has continued the global war on terror after our allies abandoned it last year,” said Ali Nazary, head of foreign relations for the NRF.
Nazary said that today, the Afghan resistance organization is the only democratic force “actively fighting all terrorist groups including the Taliban, ISIS, and Al Qaeda.”According […]
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