but after bennison�*s previous foreign minister said an overnight attack on panshir valley was drivena number of taliban fighters, some think the bbc was unable to confirm. most people in this valley are from the to zeek ethnic group and are demanding an exclusive government in kabul. the taliban said it is committed to that in some form. —— tajik ethnic group. ethnic groups which are living in afghanistan, they are afghans, they have the right to be in the government, but the future government, the next government will be announced, all these afghans who has, they will be selected as per their merit and all those afghans who have the ability and capacity and capability of this to be, to work according to their professions also. they will be in the government. so, here we had the taliban same people from all ethnic groups will have the right to be in the government. for context, there are 14 ethnic groups in afghanistan and here they are listed in the 2004 constitution which said afg hanistan�*s constitution which said afghanistan's government should afg hanistan�*s government should

. >> the taliban had been seen to have rounded up a lot of the fighters from the panshir valley.hat, look, while the panjshir is one long valley with high mountain peaks, it's always been a place that's been strategically defended very strongly. that seems to have crumbled. there are a lot of offshoot valleys, the mountains are very high. i've spent time there. it is pretty austere and steep terrain. they say they've still got fighters in the side valleys. in fact, one of their supporters who's just tweeted out over the last few minutes they are fighting on four fronts. the reality is they've been pressed, they've been pressed hard. they lost round. and this appeal for a national resistance for other leaders to rise up and is probably not going to garner a lot of support in the short term. in the longer term it might because there's a lot of former war lords, their sons as well fighters, people who are very accomplished at fighting who could rally to that cause at a later time. but for right now they really seem on the back foot, and the taliban have the upper hand, at least at t

a spokesman for the taliban says they have conquered the panshir valley, the last part of afghanistanide the building of panjshir s provincial governor. our south asia correspondent, yogita limaye, is following events. is it actually any clearer now who is in control of their panjshir valley? earlier, the national resistance front denied those claims by the taliban. find resistance front denied those claims by the taliban-_ by the taliban. and they continue to re'ect the by the taliban. and they continue to reject the claims _ by the taliban. and they continue to reject the claims of _ by the taliban. and they continue to reject the claims of the _ by the taliban. and they continue to reject the claims of the taliban, - reject the claims of the taliban, saying they are not in control of the whole of the province, they say their forces are still in strategic positions in the valley. one of the reasons it is very difficult to verify this information from eyewitnesses and people on the ground is because mobile phone and internets networks have been cut off. over the past week, when we saw

the taliban says they're now in control the panshir valley.inken speaking from qatar, saying the taliban continues to claim they will allow people to leave but you gnaw report says it is the u.s. state department holding up evacuation flights, not the taliban. >> they said they will let people with travel documents freely depart. we will hold them to that. the international community is watching to see if the taliban will live up to their commitments. we believe the number of those who have american citizenship, many of them dual nations, who remain in afghanistan, is somewhere around 100. cheryl: an american woman and her children were rescued from afghanistan thanks to the heroic efforts of a veterans group led by cory mills. the group says the state department is trying to take credit for their mission. the justice department vowing to protect abortion seekers in texas after a new state law which allows private citizens to enforce the ban on terminating pregnancies goes into effect. merrick garland says we will not tolerate violence against