The Taliban has claimed that the group’s forces arrested seven members of the National Resistance Front (NRF), an anti-Taliban armed militia, as a result of separate operations conducted on Monday in different districts of the north-eastern province.
Abdul Fattah Fayeez, spokesman for the Taliban police in Kapisa, further said that the detained NRF members had carried out a series of attacks against the Taliban over the past one year in the province.
It comes days after the NRF announced its spring guerrilla offensive against the Taliban.
The NRF has yet to comment regarding the alleged arrest of its members.
The NRF is a militia formed of former security forces under the leadership of Ahmad Masoud, son of the jihadi commander Ahmad Shah Masoud, in the north-eastern Panjshir province shortly after the Taliban recaptured Kabul in August 2021.
As yet, it has effectively expanded its areas of guerrilla attacks against the ruling Taliban from Panjshir and Baghlan to Takhar, Badakhshan, Kapisa, Parwan, and even Kabul provinces. The leadership of the anti-Taliban front is reportedly based outside Afghanistan
