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Roadside Taliban Bomb Kills Afghan Provincial Police Chief

11th September, 2016 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News September 11, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Afghanistan say a roadside bomb attack Sunday killed a provincial police chief and wounded at least three security guards. Officials in eastern Nangarhar province say slain General Zorawar Zahid was leading a counter insurgency operation in the troubled Hasarak district when his vehicle hit an

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, ISIS/DAESH, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban | Tags: Assassination, Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami, Nangarhar |
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Afghanistan, Hekmatyar on Verge of Signing Long-delayed Peace Deal

10th September, 2016 · admin · 6 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News September 10, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Top Afghan officials and representatives of an anti-government armed group, led by former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, have reported major progress in their protracted peace negotiations and both sides are expected to sign a deal, possibly sometime on Saturday. President Ashraf Ghani’s national unity government for months has

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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Govt, Hizb-e-Islami Expected To Resume Talks

6th August, 2016 · admin · 2 Comments

Tolo News: Ghairat Baheer, head of the political wing of Hizb-e-Islami, said Saturday that a four-member delegation from Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) is expected to arrive in Kabul with a few days to resume peace talks with the Afghan government. This comes after initial rounds of talks hit a deadlock in June reportedly over certain demands tabled by

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Posted in Peace Talks | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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Hekmatyar asks HIA fighters to abandon fight against Afghan forces

4th July, 2016 · admin

Khaama Press: The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has asked his fighters to abandon insurgency against the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). Hekmatyar’s instructions to renounce violence is yet another gesture by the group to join peace process which comes days after he declared the peace talks with the Afghan government is effectively

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security | Tags: Eid, Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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Kabuli asks Hekmatyar not to act based on ISI’s instructions

1st July, 2016 · admin · 2 Comments

Khaama Press: Former lawmaker and leader of the National Participation Party of Afghanistan Najibulllah Kabuli has called on Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar not to act on the instructions issued by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence which is accused of supporting the Afghan militant groups. He was speaking during a press conference in Kabul today and asked Hekmatyar to

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami, Najibulllah Kabuli |
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Kabul’s Peace Talks With Hekmatyar Deadlocked

28th June, 2016 · admin

VOA News Ayaz Gul June 27, 2016 ISLAMABAD—An Afghan insurgent group says differences over the presence of U.S.-led international troops in Afghanistan have left its peace talks with the government deadlocked. The Hezb-i-Islami (HIA) faction led by fugitive former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has accused Afghan negotiators of unilaterally altering certain provisions in the peace deal

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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Hezb-e-Islami issues new impossible-to-meet demands for peace agreement

21st June, 2016 · admin

Khaama Press: The Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has reportedly issued new impossible-to-meet demands to sign a peace agreement with the Afghan government. An official privy to the development has told The Associated Press that the new demands include cancellation of pacts with the United States, a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and that

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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Afghanistan Is About to Cut A Bad Deal with a Bad Guy

9th June, 2016 · admin

The National Interest: The Kabul government seems headed toward an agreement with the militant wing of Hezb-i-Islami (HIG), a group that for the last fifteen years has been at war with the Afghan state. Returning fighters will receive amnesty and many may eventually be incorporated into the Afghan security forces. Key leaders are also being promised housing

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Posted in Political News, Security | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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Rights Group Calls For Hekmatyar To Be Tried

28th May, 2016 · admin · 4 Comments

Tolo News: Junbesh-e-Adalat Khawhi Baray Qurbanian-e-Jang, or ‘The Movement Seeking Justice for War Victims’, has criticized the Afghan government for entering peace talks with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, a group which has been in opposition with the Afghan government for years. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, Political News | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami |
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What Information Led to US Strike on Taliban Leader?

27th May, 2016 · admin · 10 Comments

VOA News Akmal Dawi, Masood Farivar May 26, 2016 WASHINGTON—Days after a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, it remains unclear how the slain leader’s location was discovered. Mansoor was killed in a remote part of Baluchistan, a province that has been thought off limits for U.S.

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Amrullah Saleh, Hekmatyar, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Mullah Mansur |
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