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May 4th, 2017 
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nsnbc : Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his convoy arrived in capital Kabul on Wednesday. Hekmatyar is expected to meet with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani.
After almost 20 years in exile and after months of negotiations with the Afghan government and the signing of a peace agreement, Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul.
On Tuesday Hezb-e-Islami officials said Tuesday that full preparations have been made to welcome the party’s leader to Kabul city. Hekmatyar arrived in the capital after dozens of Hezb-e-Islami prisoners were released from Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul after some setbacks earlier this week. T
he release of Hezb-e-Islami prisoners was one of the main conditions of the party for the signing of the peace agreement. The government announced that more prisoners who are members of Hezb-e-Islami will be released from the prison in coming days after the government completes its formalities.
Hekmatyar arrived in eastern Laghman province over a week ago and since then he has travelled to eastern Nangarhar province. There, he Hekmatyar appeared in a gathering for the first time in nearly 20 years. Hekmatyar also attended a gathering in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday in the presence of high level government officials, including the second vice president Mohammad Sarwar Danish.
The Afghan officials are optimistic that the signing and implementation of peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami may help to encourage other insurgent and militant groups to join reconciliation process and end the war through negotiations.
Hekmatyar, like so many other Afghan leaders, has a colorful past. Hekmatyar and Hizb-e-Islami would first fight against the Soviet-imposed regime change in Afghanistan and belong to the first who received Stinger missiles and other support that had Soviet troops withdraw from the country. Later he and other al-Qaeda-linked leaders “fell out of favor” in the United States, especially after the U.S. in 2001 invaded Afghanistan, using a highly questionable pretext of fighting the global war on terror.
F/AK – nsnbc 04.05.2017
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