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MENAFN.COM
March 18, 2018
Sherzai once again voiced on the Taliban to spurn violence and accept the government's peace offer as did by the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA). Abdul Khaliq Hussaini, head of the coordination center for tribal councils, said that now the Taliban had no excuse to refuse peace talks after the government'sÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 9, 2018
This is a bit hard to square with some of the GTMO habeas litigation, however, for there have certainly been cases in that vein that wrestled with whether groups (such as Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin) should be read to fall within the scope of the 2001 AUMF. Things get more complicated if one recasts theseÃâà...
New York Times
March 4, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — When President Ashraf Ghani stood up last week to try to lure the Taliban to peace talks, promising them amnesty and political inclusion, he could point to a recent example: the deal that brought the militant group Hezb-i-Islami and its deeply divisive leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar,Ãâà...
gulfnews.com
March 2, 2018
President Burhanuddin Rabbani shook hands with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, chief of the hardline dissident Hezb-i-Islami party, at the Prime Minister's House in Islamabad before sitting down to discuss a Pakistani-proposed peace formula. “The level of sincerity for the understanding reached gives assuranceÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
May 30, 2017
A senior member of the Hezb-i-Islami group in Afghanistan was shot dead in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, members of the group and police confirmed. Haji Farid, the former spokesperson of Hezb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was killed on Tuesday by unknown gunmen as he left aÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 28, 2017
Laghman, Afghanistan - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-i-Islami, has made an appearance at a small gathering of members of the armed group in eastern Afghanistan after years of self-imposed exile. The controversial commander, accused of war crimes, was one of the most influential leaders in theÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 24, 2017
The Afghan government and Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), one of the warring parties in the Afghan conflict, signed a peace deal in September last year. The deal was considered as a breakthrough for the Afghan administration led by President Ashraf Ghani. I wrote a detailed piece on the peace deal asÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 22, 2016
Afghanistan has signed a peace agreement with Hezb-i-Islami, paving the way for the armed group's commander, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to make a political comeback despite allegations of war crimes during the 1990s. Government officials praised Thursday's agreement in the capital Kabul as a stepÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
(Pajhwok): Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led Hezb-i-Islami info-icon Afghanistan info-icon (HIA) has scrapped party membership of its three former heavyweights ---- Abdul Hadi Arghandwal, Eng. Mohammad Khan and Dr. Anwar. A statement from the HIA office in Kabul said the unanimous decision to relieve theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
Sherzai once again voiced on the Taliban to spurn violence and accept the government's peace offer as did by the Hezb-i-Islami info-icon Afghanistan (HIA). Abdul Khaliq Hussaini, head of the coordination center for tribal councils, said that now the Taliban had no excuse to refuse peace talks after theÃâà...
