KABUL (Pajhwok): Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Friday set the government a 10-day deadline to meet their demands or they would continue protests.
Hundreds of HIA supporters marched from Darulaman area of Kabul and assembled at Deh Afghanan locality, a Pajhwok reporter said. Shortly after the protest began, Hekmatyar arrived and joined the protesters.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Our goal is peace, our voice is peace” and “Death to the murderers of the nation, death to the traitorous rulers and death to the enemies of the ulema.”
Hekmatyar on the occasion said their peaceful protests, which began in Kabul today, would continue until the current crisis in the country was resolved.
He called on the government to stop targeted assassinations immediately, stop opposing peace and stop distribution of weapons and insisting on the presence of foreign troops.
He said the United States and the Taliban should remain committed to their Doha accord, which would see the withdrawal of foreign troops and the transfer of power to a new administration.
He said all parties must agree to a ceasefire and the formation of a new government.
He called for an end to the transfer of national assets abroad.
Hekmatyar also called on the Taliban to find a way to end the current war and to hold talks with the affected parties in Doha instead of holding lengthy talks.
The jihadi leader said: “If the government does not implement our demands, our future protests will be for the resignations of the current government officials.”
From now on, he said, the country will not be left to “the killers, secularists or communists. ”
Hekmatyar accused the government and officials of blocking people from joining their protest at the gates of Kabul.
“The government should know that nothing can be achieved by doing this,” he said.
He said the Presidential Palace should abandon the path of treachery and fully implement the agreement reached with Hezb-e-Islami.
“We give the presidential palace ten days to implement our demands.”
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