The crowd anticipates the first speech in 20 years from a man once considered

Afghanistan's most wanted. In May 2017, after two decades on the lam, the man known as the butcher of Kabul

returned to the city that he had once blanketed with rockets years earlier.

Gobbudin Hekmajar, the cruelest commander of the Mujahideen, and a favorite of the American and

Pakistani intelligence services, strode back into the capital of Afghanistan,

with the look and the attitude of an elder statesman,

ready to guide his country back to stability and prosperity.

The leader of the prominent Afghan armed group, Hesby Islami, whom many regard

as a warlord, is said to be behind bombings in the capital in 2012 and the following year.

A few months earlier, Heckmatjar had negotiated amnesty with the US-backed Kabul government

against which he had formally deployed suicide bombers.

As a result, the United Nations cleared his name

from a sanctions program.

The United States, after years of hunting Heckmetettjar publicly praised his rehabilitation by

the UN. America was once again on good terms with one of the original Mujah

hadine. with one of the original Mujahideen.

The Taliban would like him.

I call on Taliban.

They should accept the desires and demands of the nation.

Come stand with us.

Be united to take the country out of this current unfortunate crisis and save the country from the bloodshed.

I would have this one a reason for the

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