KABUL (SW): The government on Sunday rejected rumors about President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani dissolving the High Peace Council (HPC).
Shah Hussain Murtazawi, deputy presidential spokesman, told a presser here the peace process is a top government priority, and the HPC is key institution for this purpose.
He informed that the presidential advisor in political affairs Mohammad Akram Khpalwak has also been tasked to work as secretary of the HPC. Murtazawi hoped Khpalwak would give a new life to the HPC. A new strategy has been adopted for expediting the peace process, he said, adding soon a number of political prisoners of the Hezb-i-Islami party would be freed.
Last year, the HPC inked landmark peace deal with the Hezb-e-Islami party of former Mujahedeen leader Gulbudin Hekmatyar. Murtazawi said the government would deliver on all of its promises of the the accord in 15 days. “From practical perspective, the articles of this accord are in the implementation phase, and as per this agreement a number of Hezb-i-Islami party prisoners would be freed”, he said.
The deputy presidential spokesman said the government is all eyes for the Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbudin Hekmatyar to appear in public.
About the President’s latest trip to Australia, Indonesia and Singapore, he said economy and trade would remain focal points during meetings in these countries. Murtazawi said President Ghani would invite investors for mining, skill-development, higher-education, agriculture and transit trade sectors in Afghanistan.
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