Dozens of Afghan political leaders hold a peace conference in neighboring Pakistan.
Afghan Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Islamist organization Hezb-i-Islami, left, delivers his speech while Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor, a leader of Jamiat-e-Islami looks on during an Afghan Peace Conference in Bhurban, 65 kilometers north of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, June 22, 2019. Dozens of Afghan political leaders attended a peace conference in neighboring Pakistan on Saturday to pave the way for further Afghan-to-Afghan dialogue.
Ghani, his political opponents and a broad swath of Afghan civil society have been holding meetings in recent days with the United States’ special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, who continues to press for talks between the Afghan government, the opposition and the Taliban. Still, at the outset of Saturday’s meeting, Hekmatyar urged his fellow Afghans to press for the Taliban’s demand for a quick and full withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan.
Among the figures in attendance at Saturday’s conference in Pakistan were the head of the Afghan government-sponsored high peace council, Mohammad Karim Khalili, as well as the leader of the powerful Jamiat-e-Islami political party, Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor, and a current presidential candidate, Haneef Atmar, who is a former national security adviser.
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