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Afghanistan: Taliban's Panjshir Valley claims of victory

Resistance fighters are denying the Taliban's claim that they have captured their last holdout in the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. The leader of the National Front Resistance, Ahmad Masoud, has now asked Afghans to start a general uprising against the militants.

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