Hekmatyar’s Hezb-I-Islami Rejects “Peace” Offer
Nov 27, 2005
By Ahmad Al-Marid, JUS Afghan Correspondent

According to Pakistan’s The News, Afghan Hezb-i-Islami leader Gulbaddin Hekmatyar has issued a statement rejecting peace and reconciliation with the pro-US regime in Kabul. Hekmatyar stated that without question, those who were puppets of the US and who paved the way for the American occupation of Afghanistan would remain enemies.

A two-page Pashto statement from Hezb-i-Islami was made available to reporters and newspaper offices in Peshawar that angrily rejected the offer and predicted victory for Afghans fighting the US and its collaborators in Afghanistan. The statement emphasized that those making the offer would taste defeat the moment the US forces withdrew from Afghanistan and Iraq. "We will then march into Kabul with green Islamic flags and all those traitors now siding with the US will be put on trial and punished" it said.

The statement also stated that those making offers of peace were powerless and were acting on the orders of the US. "Who are you to offer us peace or talk about putting mujahideen on trial? You are puppets and have no respect and credibility among the Afghan people," it declared.
The Hezb-i-Islami statement also ridiculed the peace commission’s allegation that some of Afghanistan’s neighbors were supporting opponents of the Kabul regime, noting that all neighboring countries from day one had supported the US invasion of Afghanistan and captured and delivered anti-US fighters to America. Hekmatyar argued that the US-led crusader forces would never have captured Afghanistan without the support of neighboring states.

"Those who aided and abetted the killing of innocent Afghans were being made to pay the price for this injustice by Allah. Pakistan suffered an earthquake on the same day that four years ago the US invasion of Afghanistan that led to the killing of 50,000 innocent Afghans. And the aftershocks of the quake continued until the day the US bombed Afghanistan," the statement said.

The statement went on to read that the argument given by Pakistani rulers for supporting the US had also proved wrong because America is siding with India on Kashmir and had forced Pakistan to stop supporting Kashmiri freedom fighters and that Pakistan would have benefited had it sought help from Allah rather than America. (JUS)