<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Former Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh has appealed tothe United Nations asking it mobilise their resources to end the crimes beingcommitted by the Taliban in the war-torn country.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Ina letter to the United Nations, Saleh said, Panjshir, the last province inAfghanistan not controlled by the Taliban, was staring at a full scalecatastrophe which might lead to genocide of Afghans.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Panjshiris the stronghold of the National Resistance Front. It is led by Ahmad Massoud' the son of famous Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud along with Saleh whoare trying to mount a challenge to the Taliban.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Theformer Vice President said, the Taliban and other foreign groups have unleasheda vicious attack against Panjshir and other free areas of northern Afghanistan.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Accordingto reports, around 2,50,000 people, including local women, children, elderlyand 10,000 Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) who arrived in Panjshir arestuck inside these Valleys. They are suffering from the consequences theblockade.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Theletter read, if no attention is paid to the situation, a full scale humanrights and humanitarian catastrophe including starvation and mass killing, evengenocide of these people are in the making.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Further,Saleh said, two decades of conflicts, recurrent natural disasters, diseaseoutbreaks, COVID-19 pandemic and recent takeover by the Taliban has plunged thecountry into one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Theresistance forces in the country's northeastern province have said that theywould continue fighting the Taliban as their negotiations did not lead to anyresults.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Lastmonth, the Taliban captured Kabul after mounting a swift offensive in a matterof few weeks. So far, the Taliban have controlled all the regions apart fromthe Panjshir province.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">AfterTaliban's ascend to Kabul Former president Ashraf Ghani fled the country andSaleh declared himself the acting President of Afghanistan.<o:p /></span></p>''<h1> <br />''</h1>