{"id":83542,"date":"2016-12-12T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/unsc-approached-to-lift-sanctions-against-hekmatyar\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T08:00:27","slug":"unsc-approached-to-lift-sanctions-against-hekmatyar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/unsc-approached-to-lift-sanctions-against-hekmatyar\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSC approached to lift sanctions against Hekmatyar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/12 Dec\/Hekmatyar Un List.jpg\" width=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Afghan government has sent a formal request to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to lift sanctions against the members of the Hezb-e-Islami party.<\/p>\n<p>Official at the National Security Council told Salam Watandar that the government has officially requested the UNSC via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to suspend sanctions against Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbudin Hekmatyar. Lifting of sanctions imposed on Hekmatyar was one of the main points of the peace agreement between the Kabul government and the Hizb-e-Islami.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Tawab Ghorzang, NSC spokesperson told Salam Watandar that Mahmood Saiqal, permanent representative of Afghanistan in the United Nation has formally submitted documents for the suspension of sanctions against the Hizb-e-Islami. &nbsp;According to him, the government has requested the removal of the sanctions based on the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Hizb-e-Islami expects that all sanctions will be removed against<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> the leader and other members within 10 days. Hekmatyar has been offered a residence in Nangarhar province neighbouring the capital Kabul. Last week, Gulab Mangal; governor of the Nangarhar province told journalists in the provincial capital Jalalabad about the efforts to accommodate the former rebel leader here.&nbsp;The provincial government in Nangarhar has dedicated a complex of the Ministry of Tribal and Border Affairs in Jalalabad city to the former Mujahedeen leader and his close aides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hekmatyar was listed in the black list on&nbsp;20 February 2003&nbsp;as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for &ldquo;participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of&rdquo; the Taliban and Al-Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Afghan government has sent a formal request to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to lift sanctions against leader of the Hezb-e-Islami party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}