Hekmatyar asks India not to meddle in Afghan affairs

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Hekmatyar asks India not to meddle in Afghan affairs

APP Published August 23, 2021

KABUL: Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmed Khan speaks to Hizb-i-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar during a meeting at his office on Sunday. They discussed ongoing talks between the Taliban and different political groups for formation of new government in Afghanistan.—APP

ISLAMABAD: Former Afghan prime minister and Hizb-i-Islami (HI) chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has appreciated Pakistan’s efforts for peaceful settlement of the Afghan conflict and asked India not to fight Kashmir war from Afghan soil.

“New Delhi should focus on its internal issues instead of issuing statements regarding the future of Afghanistan,” said Hekmatyar while talking to media in Kabul.

He said New Delhi should respect sovereignty of Afghanistan. He was appreciative of the efforts of Prime Minister Imran Khan as well for his stance on a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the Afghan issue. Hekmatyar expressed the hope that soon there would be a government in Kabul, which would be acceptable to the Afghan people and the international community.

Also on Sunday, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmed Khan called on the Hizb-i-Islami chief at his Kabul office.

They discussed the ongoing talks between the Taliban and political groups for the formation of a new government in Afghanistan.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd, 2021

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Zia Uddin, PhD

Aug 23, 2021 08:27am

Well done Ambassador Mansoor Ahmed Khan.

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Mustafa

Aug 23, 2021 08:29am

Gulbadin Hikmatyar's statement is welcoming and relevant to present situation.

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Katua Khan

Aug 23, 2021 08:30am

Pakistan is only exposing its hand!

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Fastrack

Aug 23, 2021 08:45am

India be like, "everything gone to ruin".

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Fastrack

Aug 23, 2021 08:46am

India getting what India deserves. Humiliation and warnings.

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Vijay

Aug 23, 2021 08:54am

What about billions of dollars India has invested bin Afghanistan for its progress.

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Johnny sins

Aug 23, 2021 08:57am

India has full support by Afghan Nationals and India will do whatever is needed for Afghanistan-India relations.

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Bilal Molai

Aug 23, 2021 08:59am

@Vijay , well thanks for it.. take care of ur internal mess.. Regards

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Salman Canada

Aug 23, 2021 09:02am

@Vijay , India can only look with dismay and shed tears at their loss of billions in Afghanistan.

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Justice

Aug 23, 2021 09:02am

Is Hekmatyar trying to be significant player? Not many people know him.

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Liberal

Aug 23, 2021 09:02am

@Vijay , which progress?

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Rao Salman

Aug 23, 2021 09:03am

@Vijay , the investment is gone . India did not make the investment unconditionally for the better of afghan people but to create a footprint in Afghanistan to use that soil against Pakistan . If it was for the afghan people , then why do they call it investment ?

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Citizen

Aug 23, 2021 09:05am

I see some people get happy by just some kind words.

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Ali da Malanga

Aug 23, 2021 09:10am

This statement is another setback for Hindustan.

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Kashmiri

Aug 23, 2021 09:10am

@Vijay , the intention for investment was not for the betterment of Afghani people but to use afghani soil against Pakistan which has all gone in drain.

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Faisal

Aug 23, 2021 09:14am

@Vijay , You don't get to own a country by investing it. You invested it for your own interests.

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John

Aug 23, 2021 09:15am

He should become the President and supreme leader of Afghanistan. No one else

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Pakistan_mere_shaan

Aug 23, 2021 09:16am

That is a welcoming statement. India must keep its prying nose out of Afghanistan and focus on it's own internal issues like India itself uses to say.

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LAHORI KID

Aug 23, 2021 09:17am

@Vijay, well, India’s plan didn’t work, no one trusts India. First it was China, then Pakistan, now Afghanistan, does India get along with any neighbor ?

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Pakistan_mere_shaan

Aug 23, 2021 09:17am

Hikmatyar is indeed a true visionary for Afghanistan. India just cannot expect everyone to budge for their failed investment.

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Boby

Aug 23, 2021 09:18am

This terrorist should be fixed once and for all.

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Pakistan_mere_shaan

Aug 23, 2021 09:20am

@Vijay , you mean the progress of filling pockets of every corrupt Afghan for your proxy war? Yeah, bad news there buddy

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Rahim

Aug 23, 2021 09:22am

What if India stops billions of dollars worth of investment? Will Hekmatyer ask PMIK to pour investments? Can the nation afford to do it?

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Pakistani

Aug 23, 2021 09:22am

@Vijay , correction. Billions of dollars not for Afghan progress but for unrest in Pakistan. Tables have turned and now you sow what you have reaped.

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Pakistan_mere_shaan

Aug 23, 2021 09:23am

@Vijay, I know this must be disappointing for you people, but Pakistan and Afghanistan are at a crossroads of a new friendship. Let bygones be bygones and focus on your own internal issues

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Malik

Aug 23, 2021 09:24am

India used Afghanistan & Afghans to flight their war with Pakistan because of Pakistan’s claim on IOK, but India forgot Pakistan is Afghanistan’s immediate neighbor and shares culture with them. The Afghans will understand this later that they were used and still being used by India. India need Pakistan’s permission to use Pak airspace. Afg airspace is closed and all flights from India and to India are spending extra time and money & if Pak closes its airspace it gets worst for India.

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Xephire

Aug 23, 2021 09:25am

@Vijay , Ask your leadership about the lack of vision while investing in Afghanistan.

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Really

Aug 23, 2021 09:25am

India will do whatever is in its interest.

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Toronto Raptors

Aug 23, 2021 09:33am

The world knows what Indians been up to in Afghanistan.

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Jessi

Aug 23, 2021 09:34am

Will India now invest more in Balochistan?

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Blah

Aug 23, 2021 09:34am

Yeah and you don’t interfere in India’s affairs. Keep your revolution to yourself!

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Aug 23, 2021 09:39am

@Citizen, and, some people get happy running away from when thing get tough!

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Umair

Aug 23, 2021 09:41am

AFG govt will invite India. Since boarder conflict with Pakistan, India is required for AFG for development and strategic partnership.

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NSS

Aug 23, 2021 09:42am

Hekmatayar presents only one figure on chessoard, nothing more. What he has done for Afghanistan?

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Timur

Aug 23, 2021 09:48am

India gave Afghanistan a major Dam, Kabul airport and number of institutions including libraries without expecting anything in return. What has Hekmatiyar contributed to his own people?

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point of view

Aug 23, 2021 09:50am

The same guy will plead in India for recognition.

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Parsa

Aug 23, 2021 09:55am

The butcher of Kabul is lucky to be alive and living in Afghanistan. He escaped to Iran during Taliban’s early days in the 90s, he is irrelevant now.

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Venkata

Aug 23, 2021 09:58am

@Kashmiri, don’t worry , india has its plans. You cannot give Afghanistan single penny, Muslim brotherhood will not help every time

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Omar

Aug 23, 2021 10:01am

@Salman Canada, you have no Idea how rich India is and has always been that sort.

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Syed Ahmed

Aug 23, 2021 10:04am

@Johnny sins, good luck with 1% Afghans.

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Syed Ahmed

Aug 23, 2021 10:05am

@Justice, no one knows you

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Syed Ahmed

Aug 23, 2021 10:07am

Not a single neighbor of India likes it....This speaks volumes about a nation. The UN should watch India for mischief it wants to create through Amrulllah Saleh hiding in Panjshir valley. If India provides any arms ammunition to the rebels it is directly interfering in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and will amount to spreading terrorism in the region.

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Syed Ahmed

Aug 23, 2021 10:09am

@Malik, I hope Pakistan is not allowing Indian military aircraft over flights. That would be really dumb

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Dandy Khan

Aug 23, 2021 10:10am

@Johnny sins, day dreaming

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Alih Kazmi

Aug 23, 2021 10:14am

Unwarranted warning, India is simply out of the Afghan equation.

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Ravi

Aug 23, 2021 10:14am

Hekmatiyar who?

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Ali

Aug 23, 2021 10:20am

@Justice, He maybe insignificant but your not going to forget his name for the rest of your life.

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Alih Kazmi

Aug 23, 2021 10:26am

@point of view, Right now India is pleading for their recognition.

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Farooq

Aug 23, 2021 10:37am

@Vijay , Those all have gone down the drain.

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G H A L I B J E E E

Aug 23, 2021 10:42am

@Vijay , it is in Dubai with Ashraf Gani go and get it

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Money

Aug 23, 2021 10:49am

Good. Time India learnt its lesson that charity starts at home. This is good visual for Pakistan. West will go to Pakistan for communication with Taliban government.

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LieX

Aug 23, 2021 10:49am

So India shouldn’t meddle but Pakistan should? At least on paper, India also shares border with Afghanistan. So I am confused what is the criteria for meddling, religion?

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UAEismyHOME

Aug 23, 2021 11:28am

@Justice keep your eyes closed…

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Tasawar Malik

Aug 23, 2021 11:29am

India is out from the graveyard of empires forever.

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Akil Akhtar

Aug 23, 2021 11:34am

India will never get out of Pakistan phobia

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Zak

Aug 23, 2021 11:42am

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Zak

Aug 23, 2021 11:43am

@Katua Khan, Pakistan is only exposing its hand! Just letting india know, who won.

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The Commoner

Aug 23, 2021 11:43am

That's too much for India. Wonder what else is in the stock

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Zak

Aug 23, 2021 11:44am

“New Delhi should focus on its internal issues instead of issuing statements regarding the future of Afghanistan,” said Hekmatyar while talking to media in Kabul. Message to india, as clear as crystal. Behave or we turn up in IOK.

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Ifti Malik

Aug 23, 2021 11:45am

@LAHORI KID, I don't think Afghanistan is a neighbour of India?

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Ifti Malik

Aug 23, 2021 11:47am

@Syed Ahmed, Afghanistan isn't a neighbour of India , is it ?

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Sohail Ahmed

Aug 23, 2021 12:12pm

@Vijay , what about it. India lost every thing in Afghanistan

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Hasan

Aug 23, 2021 12:13pm

Excellent

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Zandee

Aug 23, 2021 12:20pm

@Zak, what did you win? Before you know its going to land on your head.

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Malik

Aug 23, 2021 12:23pm

India is not neighbor of Afghanistan and shares absolute no culture with Afghanistan. Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan shares border and culture with Afghanistan.

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Raheel

Aug 23, 2021 12:42pm

Peace maker v spolier

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SHAHID SATTAR

Aug 23, 2021 12:45pm

Keeping the dog at bay.

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Ali

Aug 23, 2021 01:24pm

@Katua Khan, yes that's its always been right on afghan situation

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Ace

Aug 23, 2021 01:34pm

India has built roads, dams, schools and funded a host of other infrastructure projects, including the parliament building in Afghanistan. That is called aid, not investment whereby ROI in financial terms might be expected. Investment is what China has done in Pakistan, charging mindboggling interest rates which has all the trappings of cyclical debt and taking over national assets that have been mortgaged.

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Abdur Razzaque

Aug 23, 2021 02:03pm

Good neighborly advice to the problem maker. If they don't restrain take a right action what do they deserve.

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Javed

Aug 23, 2021 02:53pm

Meddling in Afghan affairs is the only game left for india at the present time.

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BAXAR

Aug 23, 2021 03:15pm

@Ace, "India has built roads, dams, schools and funded a host of other infrastructure projects, including the parliament building in Afghanistan. " It should start doing so in India now.

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Rahul Mishra

Aug 23, 2021 03:51pm

Every other part of discussion published as headlines to cheer crowd

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ecarus

Aug 23, 2021 04:41pm

Warlord like him are the part of the problem not a solution. He,s responsible for the suffering of Afghan people.

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Javed

Aug 23, 2021 04:43pm

@Ace, there is no free lunch. All & sundry know why india spent a pretty penny in Afghanistan.

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Amer Ranjha

Aug 23, 2021 06:31pm

@Rahim, Don't worry china would happily invest in Afghanistan heck they did not even pull out their embesy staff out of kabul

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M Shaking Sweating

Aug 23, 2021 08:32pm

As if India had boots on the ground, like saying absolutely not

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N_Saq

Aug 23, 2021 08:47pm

Aww, India is shunned by another Afghan leader. :-)

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Vijay

Aug 23, 2021 09:24pm

Even though even ordinary Indians and Afghan respect each-other ?

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Aug 24, 2021 03:25pm

He is 100 percent right.

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Aug 24, 2021 10:02pm

India is not interfering in muslim Afghanistan's affairs' .It is there problems.

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