According to the Alnashrah, Ahmad Massoud said in a televised interview: "We have a number of government forces as well as thousands of residents of Panjshir province and forces from Takhar, Kunduz and Kabul. These forces are of different races and the Taliban if they continue the current approach." They will not last long.
"If the Taliban stops attacking Panjshir, we will find a better way for the future," he said. If they enter Panjshir, we will fight and try to expand the resistance.
Ahmad Massoud continued: "We are the last lines of defense in Afghanistan and we want to end this war and negotiate." But the Taliban do not listen to mediation.