Afghanistan crisis live updates: Two killed in anti-Taliban protest in Herat

: Afghanistan's National Resistance Front (NRF) leader Ahmad Massoud is safe and will soon make a statement, NRF spokesperson Ali Nazary said on Monday.

Questions of Pakistan's interference in Afghanistans internal affairs have been raised after the chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Faiz Hameed visited Kabul unannounced to meet Taliban leaders.Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that no country will be allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, Khaama News reported.

At a time when Pakistani intelligence agencies can be seen openly meddling in Afghan affairs, the Pakistan Air Force has activated an air base on its eastern front in Balochistan area close to Afghanistan. Two other satellite bases named Kotli and Rawalkot have also been activated along the border with India, intelligence sources said. The sources said the Pakistan Air Force has 12 active and an equal number of satellite bases for operations.

"The NRF forces are present in all strategic positions across the valley to continue the fight," he said on his Facebook page.

"They are our brothers and would work together for a joint purpose and welfare of the country," Mujahid said.

Some British military veterans from the Afghan war have taken their own lives because they are so devastated by the chaotic withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from the country and the victory of the Taliban, Britain's armed forces minister said on Monday.The humiliation of the lightning Taliban takeover in Afghanistan after a 20-year war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and at least a trillion dollars has dismayed veterans of the war.

Denying the Taliban's claims of the capture of the last Afghan province Panjshir holding out against the outfit, the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan on Monday said that the resistance forces are present at all strategic positions across the valley to continue the fight.They further assured the people of Afghanistan that the struggle against the Taliban and their partners will continue until justice and freedom prevails.

The last anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan have acknowledged suffering major battlefield losses and called for a ceasefire, as the top US diplomat flew to Qatar to try and handle the chaotic aftermath of the American withdrawal.Following their lightning-fast rout of Afghanistan's army last month -- and celebrations Monday when the last US troops flew out after 20 years of war -- the Taliban are seeking to crush the forces defending the mountainous Panjshir Valley.