Fight Against Taliban Is ‘Struggle For Freedom, Not Partition’, Says Resistance Leader
Yasin Zia, leader of the Afghanistan Freedom Front, has dismissed former President Ashraf Ghani’s warnings about the risk of national fragmentation.
Yasin Zia, leader of the Afghanistan Freedom Front, has dismissed former President Ashraf Ghani’s warnings about the risk of national fragmentation.
He said that the armed resistance against the Taliban is a legitimate struggle for Afghanistan’s freedom, not an effort to divide the country.
In a post on X addressed to Ghani, Zia said the former president had spoken of the dangers of war and division, while “the armed struggle of the Afghan people against the Taliban regime” was a just and rightful fight.
Ghani recently warned that growing tensions between the Taliban and Pakistan could lead to destabilisation and stressed the need for a national dialogue to prevent further division.
Zia accused Ghani of failing to uphold his responsibilities as commander-in-chief and guardian of the constitution, and of remaining silent for four years about the fate of former security personnel. He said Ghani’s inaction in the face of killings of former Afghan soldiers amounted to tacit collusion with the Taliban.
According to Zia, the fall of the republic in 2021 “was not a military defeat but a political collapse,” for which he said Ghani bore central responsibility. He added that Afghanistan’s armed forces were reorganising and mobilising once again, and that the defeat of 2021 should not be accepted as final.
“We will continue our rightful struggle until that political disgrace of yours is turned into the complete victory of the Afghan people,” he wrote.
Zia concluded that Afghans would ultimately prevail and determine their own future.
