Ahmad Masoud, the leader of an anti-Taliban group in Afghanistan, urged expatriates to unite to find a "political" solution to the overthrow of the Taliban regime.
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"We want to unite the diaspora and gradually increase the dialogue and get to a point where we have a road map for the future of Afghanistan," he said at a conference in Vienna. .'
"We are at the very beginning of a new phase," he said.
The Vienna conference brought together about 30 anti-Taliban members, most of whom were living in exile.
Ahmad Masoud said that "recently many groups formed outside Afghanistan were not happy with the current situation inside the country, it is time to overcome the differences and heal the wounds."
He said that after the withdrawal of the US army last year, the Taliban's occupation has set back women's rights and paved the way for terrorist groups.
Ahmad Masood is the son of anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Masood.
Masood, the group's most revered figure and known as the 'Lion of Panjshir', was killed by al-Qaeda in 2001, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States.
His son Ahmad Masood has since launched a resistance against Taliban forces and has denounced their government as 'illegitimate'.
The NRF had announced an operation against the Taliban in May.
Ahmad Masood said that "Our aim has never been to escalate the war, but (our aim) is to end the war."
