PESHAWAR, Dec 3: Afghanistan’s former president Sibghatullah Mujaddidi who arrived in Peshawar on Sunday night is likely to hold meetings with president Gen Pervez Musharraf and other senior officials in Islamabad within the next few days, his family sources told Dawn here on Monday.

Mr Mujaddidi, chief of the National Liberation Front of Afghanistan (NLFA) has been living in exile in Denmark since 1999, when Pakistan government deported him for his adverse views.

Siddiqullah Mujaddidi, son of the former president, informed that his father would soon meet President Musharraf, foreign minister Abdul Sattar, and other senior officials to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.

Siddiqullah told Dawn, that the former president had always struggled for the restoration of peace in Afghanistan and was a staunch supporter of the traditional Loya Jirga. He said that the Afghans themselves have asked him to return to Pakistan and play his role.

Siddiqullah said that his father supported the intra-Afghan dialogue, including the Bonn conference. However, he thinks that the participants of the conference did not represent majority of the Afghans.

Following the fall of Dr Najeebullah’s government in Kabul in 1992 Sibghatullah Mujaddidi was interim president for a period of three months.