Monday 30 May 2016

Sticks and carrots: Elusive quest for Afghan peace (Kriti M Shah, South Asia Monitor)

The Afghan government signed a draft peace agreement with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e-Islami on May 18, its first peace agreement with an insurgent group ever since the Afghan Taliban decided to withdraw itself from the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG)-led peace process. The deal, among other things, would see the safe return of Hekmatyar to Kabul after a hiatus of two decades that were ostensibly spent in exile, shunting between Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=emerging&nid=17303

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