Panjshir is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country containing the Panjshir Valley (Panjshir River)
Panjshir Province is ringed by the Panjshir mountains in the north and the Kuhestan mountains in the south
Panjshir was never taken over at any point in Afghanistan’s Multidirectional civil war that started in the 1970s.
What has happened now ?
National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan vowed to continue fighting against the Taliban.
But this time, NRF neither had any direct access to a friendly border (say, Tajikistan) nor direct military assistance from regional players such as Russia, Iran or Tajikistan.
Taliban launched the Panjshir offensive and took over the Valley.