KABUL (SW): The Hezb-i-Islami (HI) delegation would visit Kabul later this week to take the peace talks’ process ahead.
Ghairat Baheer, spokesman for the Hezb-i-Islami has said that a four-member delegation of the party is scheduled to pay a visit and have talks with the High Peace Council (HPC). The party led by the former prime minister Gulbudin Hekmatyar has been in talk with the Kabul government for the past few months.
Both sides have associated high hopes with the process.
Baheer told Salam Watandar that the HI delegation would be led by their representative Amin Kareem.
He stressed that they are hopeful for a good deal and it depends upon the government to ensure peace prevails. “We want all the issues to be clearly marked so that no ambiguity or wrong perceptions undermine the peace, we want the agreement to be fair, respectful, just and lasting”, he said.
Responding to this, Attaur Rahman Saleem, deputy chief for the High Peace Council affirmed that arrangements have been made for a meeting with the HI later this week.
Analysts believe there are groups within the government that oppose the return of Gulbudin into the political arena. Mohammad Younus Fakoor, an analyst said that it seems the chief of the Hezb-e-Islami himself is committed to a peace deal. He however, cautioned that on his return, the political climate would heat-up.
”Those groups that were close to Ghani (President Ashraf Ghani) and Abdullah (CEO Abdullah Abdullah) but were not given power and perks are bent upon campaigning against the government, these groups would use the return of Gulbudin as another excuse to thrash the government”, he said.
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