You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Afghanistan
Hekmatyar will support Karzai government. Really.
2002-03-11
  • The party of former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said it would cooperate with Afghanistan's U.S.-supported interim leader. Hekmatyar had opposed the new administration because it accepted foreign troops on Afghan soil. But the deputy leader of his Hezb-e-Islami party, Qutabuddin Hilal, said a delegation met recently with Hamid Karzai in Kabul to iron out differences. "The impression that we are opposed to Hamid Karzai's government in Kabul is wrong," Hilal told a news conference in Peshawar, Pakistan.

    Hilal said Hekmatyar still wants U.S. and foreign troops out of the country and wants a national army to restore peace in the war-battered country. Hilal said the meeting with Karzai took place with the consent of Hekmatyar, who served prime minister in the fractious Afghan government that took power after the demise of the pro-Moscow regime in 1992.
    Sounds like the fix is in. Hekmatyar doesn't really support anyone but himself, so this would be purely a tactical move. It's probably a trade-off so he can reappear in Afghanistan and go back to work building his power base. He'll end his "support" when he feels like it, which will be when he's managed to buy enough Pashtun Islamonazi support to try and take over. Meanwhile, having Hekmatyar "behind" him makes Karzai himself suspect.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

    00:00