Afghanistan correspondent for The Times of London, Jerome Starkey is currently on a mission to have the coolest car in all of Afghanistan by having his vintage Volkswagen Beetle (dubbed Herb-i-Islami in comedic ode to the Love Bug and Hekmetyar’s group. I wonder how Hekmetyar feels about being with associated with Lindsay Lohan?) restored and [...]
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Though the United States has been very wary of Karzai lead negotiations with militant insurgent groups like the Taliban and more recently group “of concern,” Hezb-e-Islami, lead by designated terrorist, Gulbuddin Hekmetyar, as a way of possibly legitimizing insurgent groups, Hekmatyar’s son-in-law, Dr. Ghairat Baheer insists that the United States and Afghanistan must negotiate directly [...]
On the day of Nowroz celebrations in Afghanistan, when government officials met with representatives of designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmetyar‘s Hezb-e-Islami, a group labeled ‘of concern‘ to the United States Department of State, the group called for a foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by this Summer. In addition, Hezb-e-Islami made 14 other demands of the Afghan [...]
On Nowroz, March 21, chief spokesman of the Hezb-e-Islami party, Harun Zarghun stated that a delegation was meeting with government officials in Kabul to discuss some sort of peace offer. This negotiation is seen as worrisome to the United States as Hezb-e-Islami is one of 40 groups “of concern” according to a list published by [...]
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