Hasn’t Ashraf Ghani gambled by signing a peace accord with Gulbadin Hikmatyar? Will he be able to pull it off? Will it work out the way it worked out in El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique and Guatemala?
Many eyebrows were raised in Kabul where Gulbadeen is looked upon as a butcher of thousands of its residents .The memory of mayhem let loose by his men after the downfall of Najibullah in 1992 are still fresh in the minds of many in Kabul. Gulbadeen had been offered the slot of prime minister by Burhanudin Rabbani but he refused it and instead joined forces with General Rashid Dostum and ransacked Afghanistan capital. It is another matter he couldn’t occupy absolute power.
There are different yardsticks of dealing with the war criminals. There are many who do not subscribe to the grant of amnesty in any circumstances to those whose past is soiled in the blood of innocent citizens .They believe they should be tried like prisoners of Nuremberg trials after the second world war so that correct signals go to the would-be war criminals.
It is yet to be seen how far Ashraf Ghani’s gambit succeeds! Time was when there was no love lost between Gulbadeen and the Taliban. A great deal will depend how the Taliban look at it?
POSTSCRIPT: The war of nerves between Imran Khan and Mian Nawaz Sharif has now assumed dangerous proportions. If the PTI’s chairman translates into reality his threat to block the federal capital after Moharram if by that time the PM did not furnish replies on the allegations in the Panama Leaks, things could take a dangerous turn.
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