KABUL (HIA) led by Gulbadin Hekmatyar would soon announce a decision on supporting a particular candidate in the April presidential election, a senior leader of the faction said on Tuesday. Qaribur Rahman Saeed, the HIA former spokesman and the faction’s…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL chief Gulbadin Hikmatyar has called on President Hamid Karzai to standby his refusal to sign the security agreement with the US. The HIA leader made the request in a letter published on Sunday on the group’s website “Shahadat.” Hikmatyar…
KABUL (HIA) on Tuesday said the insurgent group wanted to play a role in next year’s landmark elections. The election commission has shortlisted 10 individuals as eligible presidential candidates for the April 5 vote, removing 17 others from the initial…
KABUL on a security pact with the US. A day earlier, Loya Jirga Preparatory Commission official Sadiq Mudabbir said that the HIA had agreed to participate in the Nov. 21 tribal assembly on the Bilateral Security Agreement between Kabul and…
KABUL (HIA) led by Gulbadin Hekmatyar. During an exclusive interview, Qutbuddin Hilal told Pajhwok Afghan News there was no doubt that foreigners did not want to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, because they believed their interests were better served…
KABUL Afghanistan chief on Tuesday asked his supporters to spare non-combatants. In his Eid message, Eng. Gulbadin Hekmatyar hoped foreign troops would have left the country before the coming year’s religious festival and a government of people’s choice would be…
KABUL (HIA)’s moderate faction, Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, on Thursday called for insurgent groups to stop fighting and participate in elections. Addressing a party gathering in Kabul, the economy minister condemned suicide and bomb attacks that killed and wounded innocent people.…
KABUL on Wednesday condemned the killing of some innocent Afghan workers by Iranian borders forces, saying the shooting negated good neighbourliness and other international norms. Hundreds of Afghan citizens, who were going to Iran for work, came under attack from…
JALALABAD (PAN militants were joining the government-initiated peace drive in eastern Nangarhar province to benefit from certain privileges. No noted insurgent leader has so far reconciled with the Karzai administration through the Nangarhar High Peace Committee, they insisted. But the…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN fighters after an HIA commander was killed in a roadside bombing in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Saturday. The HIA commander, Khan Jee, was killed along with a friend in the blast on Friday…
KABUL (HIA) have been in talks to reach a consensus on fielding a joint candidate in next year's presidential elections and a possible reunification, sources have said. Last week, a five-member delegation of the HIA faction led by Gulbadin Hekmatyar…
KABUL, has been in Kabul to discuss with political parties the upcoming elections, sources said on Wednesday. The five-member HIA team, led by Mohammad Rasoul, arrived in Kabul a few days ago and had so far held meetings with members…
KABUL party on Thursday decided to field its candidate in the presidential election due next year. The decision came at a meeting of the party’s executive council, Hezb-i-Islami spokesman Abdullah Kamawal told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said that senior party…
KABUL (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar has offered the Kabul government a two-point proposal for his group's participation in the 2014 presidential election. In his latest interview with a local private TV channel, Hekmatyar said they would field a presidential candidate…
KABUL (HIA), led by Economy Minister Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, decided on Thursday that it would not remain indifferent to the upcoming elections and would consult the nation on the issue. The decision came at a meeting attended by the minister…
ISLAMABAD (PAN Afghanistan (HIA) said it is impossible to conduct transparent elections due to the presence of foreign troops in the country. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Ghairat Baheer, the political affairs head of HIA, led-by Gul…
KABUL): Insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has called for holding Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Council elections during the first half of 2014. Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan, was made available to Pajhwok Afghan News. The country is faced with…
KABUL Afghanistan (HIA) led by Gul Buddin Hikmatyar, on Wednesday started a trilateral meeting in Kyoto city of Japan, officials said. HIA head of political affairs Dr. Ghairat Baheer, former Taliban Planning Minister Qari Din Mohammad, ex-Taliban ambassador to Pakistan…
KABUL (HAI), which resumed peace negotiations with government this week, on Monday expressed its satisfaction over a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. Qaribul Rahman Saeedi, the HIA political office spokesman in Europe and member of the party’s negotiating team, told…
KABUL (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar has spurned the strategy of the United States and the Karzai administration for ending the decade-long conflict as unacceptable. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, the former prime minister blamed Moscow and Washington…
