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Exact date of Hekmatyar’s visit to Kabul still unknown
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The exact date of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e Islami party’s visit to Kabul, which has been said to be next week, has not yet determined.
It has been scheduled that Hekmatyar to visit Kabul next week for signing peace agreement with President Ghani, but the Hezb-e Islami delegation has rejected.
The Hezb-e Islami representative has declared that the Afghan government has still not clear its position on Peace with the party.
“There are many steps remaining for the coming of Hekmatyar. We do not have any problem if the Afghan government stands by its commitments and we will give all our facilities to the government hundred percent,” Amin Karim, member of Hezb-e Islami delegation.
However, The High Peace Council says that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will visit Kabul next week to sign peace agreement with the President Ghani.
“The negotiations on peace agreement will be finished during this week and we will witness the signing of peace accord by President and Hekmatyar,” Abdul Khaibar Oqchun, deputy of HPC said.
The Afghan Executive Office has also accepts that the important issues on peace has not been finalized with the Hezb-e Islami party.
“The conditions of Hezb-e Islamic have been accepted according to the Afghan constitution and the party has the right to follow its political programs like others,” Dawoud Asas, advisor to CEO said.
This comes as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now in his late 60s, says he wants a “real and fair peace” but with previous conditions the Kabul government is unlikely to even contemplate, such as the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan and new elections in 2016.
Earlier this year, Hekmatyar sent an envoy to Kabul to meet with senior Afghan officials and offer his services as an interlocutor, an associate of his told the AP.
According to the associate and one Afghan official, the envoy met with President Ashraf Ghani and, possibly, other senior leaders.
The president’s office did not confirm the meetings had taken place. Both the associate and the official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secret nature of the subject.
Hekmatyar talks of an “inter-Afghan dialogue” that pointedly excludes neighbouring Pakistan, which has been a key mediator and host for Taliban-Kabul peace talks.
Pakistan’s government on Friday extended the stay of Afghan refugees in the country till June 30, amid repatriation of illegal foreign nationals.
There are around 1.3 million registered Afghans living in Pakistan, according to a spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Islamabad, Dawn newspaper reported.
“On the recommendation of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, the federal cabinet approved the extension of the validity of PoR cards of Afghan refugees from April 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024,” said an official statement, issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The PoR cardholders will be repatriated in the third phase of the plan that will begin after the repatriation of “illegal foreign nationals” residing in Pakistan is completed, the statement added.
The PoR card holders avail schools, bank accounts and other facilities in Pakistan.
Repatriation of undocumented refugees began on November 1 and continues. More than 500,000 Afghans have been expelled so far.
John Bass, US acting under secretary of state for political affairs, will travel to Qatar and Pakistan April 26-30, US State Department announced on Friday.
In Doha, Qatar, he will meet with senior Qatari government officials and other diplomatic missions to discuss support for Afghanistan and shared security interests in the region, US State Department said in a statement.
In Islamabad, Pakistan, Under Secretary Bass will meet with senior Pakistani government officials to discuss a range of regional and bilateral issues as part of the U.S.-Pakistani partnership, the statement added.
John Bass served as US ambassador to Afghanistan under Donald Trump administration between December 2017 and January 2020.
A tripartite meeting between the delegations of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan was held in Kabul with the aim of connecting North Asia to South Asia and reducing transit and transportation costs among these three countries, the Ministry of Trade and Commerce said in a statement.
In this meeting, an agreement was reached on the creation of a joint technical committee to continue the talks.
This tripartite meeting was held under the leadership of Nooruddin Azizi, the Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Vice President of Turkmenistan and Srik Zhumangarin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
Earlier, a bilateral meeting was held between the delegation of the Islamic Emirate and Turkmenistan. The ministry of commerce said the participants of the meeting discussed the construction of a large joint logistics center in Torghondi, the trilateral transit agreement between the IEA, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, the expansion of Afghanistan’s railway, solving issues related to Afghan transit and export goods, and a number of other commercial issues.
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