KABUL (Pajhwok): The NATO secretary-general has welcomed a draft peace agreement before the administration of President Ashraf Ghani and the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA).
Jens Stoltenberg hailed the deal at a news conference in Brussels, where he was asked if courting Gulbadin Hekmatyar, who is on the US blacklist, was not a setback for democracy and human rights in Afghanistan.
He insisted there was no contradiction between a continued NATO military assistance to the Afghan security forces and support for a negotiated solution to the ongoing conflict.
“Actually, I believe that . . .
