Hekmatyar Warns Against Efforts to Topple Afghan Government
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the warlord who entered a peace deal with President Ashraf Ghani’s administration, said he would not allow anyone to overthrow the government illegally because efforts to do so would result in Kabul being overrun by Taliban. “Without an alternative, can we have a result other than the fall of Kabul to the armed insurgents,” he said. The Hizb-e-Islami leader was responding to the warnings by Salahuddin Rabbani, the country’s foreign minister, that if the government did... Читать дальше...