Afghan Group That Is Resisting Taliban Resorts To Hiring DC Lobbyist To Beg Biden Admin for Help

An Afghan resistance group has retained a Washington lobbyist in an effort to increase U.S. support to remove the Taliban from power, according to a New York Times report.

Ahmad Massoud serves as head of the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. The group has sought help in the form of weapons and finances to battle against the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley.

The group also seeks to press the U.S. to oppose recognizing the Taliban government as the legitimate leaders of 🇦🇫Afghanistan.

“No entity could receive legitimacy without the support, endorsement of his excellency Ahmad Massoud, because he is the source of legitimacy today,” Ali Nazary, Massoud’s U.S. representative, said, the Times reported.

Massoud signed a contract with Robert Stryk, “a K Street lobbyist who represents several foreign interests on Capitol Hill,” according to The Hill.

Stryk is a Republican lobbyist who served a growing number of clients during the Trump