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[EurasiaReview] On November 15, 2022, the Foreign Policy Research Institute conducted an in-person and Zoom event titled, "The Future of Resistance® in Afghanistan," with Ali M. Nazary, the head of foreign relations for the National Resistance® Front (NRF). Nazary, an articulate front man for the NRF and the anti-Taliban...mindless ferocity in a turban...
cause in Afghanistan, presented one of the most comprehensive briefings to a general American audience to date of the NRF’s goals and strategy. This short essay will provide a brief description of those goals and strategy and assess what this may mean for U.S. foreign policy.
According to Nazary, the NRF is fighting for a democratic, decentralized Afghanistan with equal rights for all citizens, including gender equality. To achieve this goal, NRF guerrilla forces are conducting a classic Maoist insurgency that is in the first stage of gathering strength in the countryside while exhausting its enemy. The NRF hopes to move soon to the next stage of the insurgency by liberating select regions of the country, which would allow them to gain the resources for the final stage of fighting large-scale battles to overthrow Taliban rule.