Massoud, who operates from overseas, said the NRF had been forced to change tactics because it could not fight the well-equipped Taliban conventionally.
Massoud dismissed any suggestion of returning to Afghanistan as part of a Taliban reintegration scheme of former officials.
"Those people who left Afghanistan, they left for more than just house or a car.
"If the Taliban announced that they accept elections, today we all can return because this is what we want."
The most recent elections in Afghanistan were held under the U.S.-backed administration which Taliban deposed in August 2021 when Western troops withdrew.
Persons:
Ahmad Massoud, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Massoud, John Irish, Michael Perry
Organizations:
National Resistance, of, Taliban, U.S, Western, Thomson
Locations:
of Afghanistan, Soviet, Paris, France, PARIS, Afghan, Afghanistan, Panjshir, Kabul, Ukraine