Gulbuddin Hekmatyar... who used to be known as
The Most Evil Man in the Worldbut who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
will soon visit Kabul to hold talks with High Peace Council, the Council says.
| Oh, goody! The UAVs can track them home as a training exercise. |
| "Surrender and send the foreigners home. That should do it." |
"In our meeting with Hezb-e-Islami representatives in Islamabad, they put forward a set of suggestions which we are working on, to see what common points of view we have with Hezb-e-Islami. Then we will tell them what is practical and what is not," Ghulam Farouq Wardak, a member of High Peace Council, told a news conference.
Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
Isaf says while it considers Hezb-e-Islami as a dangerous network, it welcomes renunciation of violence and acceptance of Afghanistan's constitution by any group interested in the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
Isaf Public Relations Officer, Admiral Gregory Smith, said: "They are very dangerous, dangerous organisation. Whether or not they actually have intent and a will as a group to sit down and talk about peace is unclear to me. But our pledge to the Afghan government is that we will do all we can to support their desire, the Afghan government's desire."
High Peace Council speaks of peace talks with anti-government groups especially Hezb-e-Islami at a time that human rights
... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
organisations expressed concern that the Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami have increased violence and even target civilians and public places.
In a latest incident, Hezb-e-Islami grabbed credit for targeting a supermarket in Kabul in which 8 civilians including all 6 members of a family bit the dust.