In recent years, officials from Hizb-e-Islami, the second largest terrorist group in Afghanistan after the Taliban, have held talks with Afghan and U.S. officials over a peaceful solution of the Afghan conflict. Provided below are excerpts from an interview by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hizb-e-Islami's fugitive chief in Afghanistan.
The interview was published by dailyshahadat.com, a Pashtu-language website that is aligned with Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan, which also operates as a political party in Kabul. Hekmatyar is believed to be hiding somewhere in Pakistan, and several leaders of his party are based in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
