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MPs React To Saleh’s Remarks; Call For Unity

A number of lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Saturday reacted to the remarks of state minister for security reforms Amrullah Saleh about Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and said the nation should forget the past and think about the future.

The MPs called on the people to lend their support to the peace process.

“We urge all Afghans, government institutions, civil society organizations and media outlets not to damage the [peace] process and support it instead,” the Wolesi Jirga speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi told lawmakers.

“Instead of party-based and personal agendas, we must have a national agenda for the people. Because it [party-based and personal agendas] will not help Afghans,” Ibrahimi said.

Some legislators meanwhile said Saleh’s statement was against national interests and that such remarks will damage the peace process.

“There are some people with small mouths and big words. By this, they want to build their career. They have been paid money by foreigners to make such remarks,” said Obaidullah Barikzai, an MP from Helmand.

Referring to Saleh’s remarks about Hekmatyar, he said: “We are all citizens of this country and we all have equal rights. We are brothers with each other. We should tolerable each other and we should not pave the ground for shedding each other’s blood or for blaming each other.”

Addressing a gathering in Kapisa province on Friday, Saleh criticized Hekmatyar for his recent remarks and said he had ‘insulted’ Afghanistan’s war victims when he made his first speech after 20 years at the Presidential Palace one week ago.

Saleh said he is not against the peace process, but he opposes the way Hekmatyar was welcomed by government.

"I think organizing a big event for the person who issued fatwas for our killing for 17 years, who financed destruction for 17 years, who committed anything against his country from a foreign country for 17 years, who gave a lecture for more than an hour and paid no respect to martyrs of the past 17 years in Afghanistan, was a mistake," said Saleh.

Saleh said: “In the hall that he [Hekmatyar] was speaking, he did not even pause for a minute to greet the audience or to confess that the leaders present had forgiven him and he should thank them [for that]. He [Hekmatyar] did not mention how many soldiers, who were ensuring his security outside the hall [at the Presidential Palace] were killed by him in the past 17 years.”

MPs React To Saleh’s Remarks; Call For Unity

Some legislators meanwhile said Saleh’s statement was against national interests and that such remarks will damage the peace process

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A number of lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Saturday reacted to the remarks of state minister for security reforms Amrullah Saleh about Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and said the nation should forget the past and think about the future.

The MPs called on the people to lend their support to the peace process.

“We urge all Afghans, government institutions, civil society organizations and media outlets not to damage the [peace] process and support it instead,” the Wolesi Jirga speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi told lawmakers.

“Instead of party-based and personal agendas, we must have a national agenda for the people. Because it [party-based and personal agendas] will not help Afghans,” Ibrahimi said.

Some legislators meanwhile said Saleh’s statement was against national interests and that such remarks will damage the peace process.

“There are some people with small mouths and big words. By this, they want to build their career. They have been paid money by foreigners to make such remarks,” said Obaidullah Barikzai, an MP from Helmand.

Referring to Saleh’s remarks about Hekmatyar, he said: “We are all citizens of this country and we all have equal rights. We are brothers with each other. We should tolerable each other and we should not pave the ground for shedding each other’s blood or for blaming each other.”

Addressing a gathering in Kapisa province on Friday, Saleh criticized Hekmatyar for his recent remarks and said he had ‘insulted’ Afghanistan’s war victims when he made his first speech after 20 years at the Presidential Palace one week ago.

Saleh said he is not against the peace process, but he opposes the way Hekmatyar was welcomed by government.

"I think organizing a big event for the person who issued fatwas for our killing for 17 years, who financed destruction for 17 years, who committed anything against his country from a foreign country for 17 years, who gave a lecture for more than an hour and paid no respect to martyrs of the past 17 years in Afghanistan, was a mistake," said Saleh.

Saleh said: “In the hall that he [Hekmatyar] was speaking, he did not even pause for a minute to greet the audience or to confess that the leaders present had forgiven him and he should thank them [for that]. He [Hekmatyar] did not mention how many soldiers, who were ensuring his security outside the hall [at the Presidential Palace] were killed by him in the past 17 years.”

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