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. ...
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