Afghan resistance leader says he is open to peace talks with Taliban

In a Facebook post, he wrote: "The National Resistance Front agrees to solve the current problems and to stop the war and continue the process of negotiations and hopes that the Taliban will take practical steps to this demand of the honorable scholars."

"The National Resistance Front is ready to stop the war immediately in order to achieve stable peace, if the Taliban group ends its military attacks and movements in Panjshir and Andarab, and hopes that it will end the war with scholars and reformers in a large gathering all inclusively. Keep the conversations going," he said.

The Panjshir Valley is a region which is still resisting the advancement of the Taliban forces.

The Taliban took control of Afghanistan on Aug 15 after entering Kabul.

"The National Resistance Front fully supports the call of the honorable scholars to remove the compensation on Panjshir and hopes that the Taliban will take this Islamic and humanitarian demand seriously," the leader wrote on Facebook.

The Taliban did not comment on the matter so far.

Meanwhile, the NRF said its spokesman Fahim Dashti and a commander, Gen Abdul Wudod Zara, had been killed in the conflict, while a prominent Taliban general and 13 bodyguards had also died, reports BBC.

Panjshir Valley has been a site of resistance even during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and later during the Taliban's previous period of rule, between 1996 and 2001.