KABUL (Pajhwok): Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar on Friday once again called on the Taliban to respond positively to people’s demand for peace so the Afghans were able to resolve their problems themselves.
The former jihadi leader, who addressed thousands of his supporters at the Ghazi football stadium in Kabul, recalled the sacrifices and patriotism of the Afghans against the former Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Thousands of HIA supporters coming from Kabul and nearby provinces thronged the football stadium to see and listen to Hekmatyar, who emerged from . . .
