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Hekmatyar gives Karzai 15 demands for possible peace pact with Govt | The Al-Qaeda-linked militant organization Hezb-e-Islami has handed over a list of 15 demands to the Afghan Government, as Afghan President Hamid Karzai's
moves towards a political dialogue with insurgent groups gathered pace.
Hezb-e-Islami
spokesman, Harun Zarghun, said that a five-man delegation representing its leader
and former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, arrived in Kabul ten days ago and
had met President Karzai. "One of them is to set a timeline for the withdrawal
of foreign forces and another the formation of an interim administration," The
Times quoted Zarghun, as saying. Meanwhile, a presidential spokesman confirmed
that the delegation had met President Karzai. "They brought a peace plan, a
proposal,
and the President is studying it," the spokesman said. Hezb-e-Islami was founded
as an anti-Soviet militia in the 1980s, when it received US funding. It later
turned its guns on other Mujahidin groups in the civil war of the 1990s. After
2001 the organization split into a legal political entity, which is the largest
bloc in parliament, and a militant wing loyal to Hekmatyar, who has been in hiding
ever since. President Karzai is expected to hold a meeting in Kabul next month
to establish dialogue with militant groups. |
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