The 'Butcher Of Kabul' Returns To Afghanistan Promoting Peace

Deutsche Welle: Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar urges Taliban to end war

Afghan warlord and ex-premier, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has called on the Taliban to lay down their weapons and enter peace talks with the government. Kabul signed a peace agreement with the Hezb-i-Islami leader last year.

In his first public appearance in nearly two decades, notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar urged Taliban insurgents to join a "caravan of peace."

"… stop the pointless, meaningless and unholy war," Hekmatyar told a gathering of his followers and Afghan politicians in Laghman province, east of the capital, Kabul.

Hekmatyar, the leader of the Islamist organization Hezb-i-Islami, had occasionally collaborated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. He was Afghanistan's prime minister from 1993 to 1994, and again briefly in 1996, before the Taliban took over Kabul.

In September last year, the Afghan government signed a peace agreement with Hekmatyar and his militant group despite criticism from some sections of Afghan society.

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Karzai In Move To Share Power With Warlord Wanted By US

Photo: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

From Times Online:

Extremist on America's list of most-wanted terrorists is to hold talks with the Afghan government in coming weeks.

ONE of Afghanistan’s most wanted terrorists is to be offered a power-sharing deal by the government of President Hamid Karzai as the country’s warlords extend their grip on power.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is on America’s “most wanted” terrorist list, is to hold talks with the Kabul government within the next few weeks.

Hekmatyar is the leader of Hezb-i-Islami, which has been fighting Nato troops alongside the Taliban. The hardline group is responsible for many attacks in the eastern and central regions, including the massacre of 10 French soldiers in Sarobi last year. It controls Kapisa province, just 50 miles north of Kabul.

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My Comment: We never learn .... but we are losing the war in Afghanistan, and for the Afghan Government and their U.S./NATO allies, there are few is any good options left.