Ahmad #Massoud, leader of #Afghanistan's last major outpost of anti-Taliban #resistance, said on Sunday he hoped to hold peaceful talks with the Islamist movement that seized power in #Kabul a week ago but that his forces were ready to fight. "We want to make the Taliban realise that the only way forward is through negotiation," he told Reuters by telephone from his stronghold in the #Panjshir valley northwest of Kabul, where he has gathered forces made up of remnants of regular army units and special forces as well as local militia fighters.

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