Taliban official stated that Ahmad Massoud recognized the authority of the Taliban

The Taliban announced that the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, Ahmad Massoud, has pledged allegiance to the Taliban.

According to Afghan media, Ahmad Massoud Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Minister of Migration in the Taliban government, stated that Ahmad Massoud has pledged allegiance to the Taliban.

“Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghanistan’s national hero, the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, has pledged allegiance to the cabinet of the Islamic Emirate,” said Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani.

Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani had previously made similar statements about leaders of the Islamic Society of Afghanistan, which is now divided. However, Ato Mohammad Noor, the leader of this society, rejected this information at that time.

“In our Khorasan tradition, there is no such concept as a pledge of allegiance. We will die standing, but we will not live bent,” Ato Mohammad Noor stated then.

However, Ahmad Massoud himself has not yet reacted to Haqqani’s statement.

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghanistan’s national hero, the legendary leader of the Northern Alliance Ahmad Shah Massoud, left Afghanistan and lived in Tajikistan for some time. He later announced the creation of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. The Front was quite active initially, but over the past year and a half, its political and military activities against the Taliban have declined.

This video with the statement from the Taliban’s Minister of Migration Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani is circulating in the media while no representatives of opposition parties or movements have been invited to a two-day conference on Afghanistan in Qatar. The Taliban also did not participate in this conference on the grounds that the UN is not meeting the Taliban’s demands.