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Article: AFGHANISTAN: HIZB-I ISLAMI WANTS TO JOIN GOVERNMENT DESPITE TERRORISM ACCUSATIONS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- December 25, 2002
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Hilal added that Hizb-i Islami has not cooperated with Al-Qaeda in any fashion because Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, there are persistent reports that Hekmatyar, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban elements are working together against the Afghan central government. The 12 December issue of Parwan's "Payam-i Mujahid" newspaper, for example, reported that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is trying to create a Taliban-Hekmatyar union. The newspaper's source, an anonymous former Taliban, said that one of the intermediaries is former Nangarhar Governor Molavi Kabir. The daily also listed a number of Pakistani Islamic parties that, it is claimed, are in contact ...