KABUL - The Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader, Gulbadin Hikmatyar, has asked US President-elect Donald Trump to pull out its troops from Afghanistan as the decade long war yielded no outcome and let Afghans to decide their future.
Hikmatyar expressed the view in an open letter to Trump who defeated Hillary Clinton and become the 45th president-elect of the world powerful country in November 8 election.
He writes: “It is hoped the US leadership this time will take a sincere decision regarding the afghan unproductive war, a decision which the earlier leadership of Bush and Obama administration failed to take that could have bring the ongoing war to an end.”
Hikmatyar told Trump the new leadership of US would inherit nearly two decades of useless war that claimed the lives of over 300,000 innocent Afghans, over two million were forces to migrate, thousands of NATO soldiers had been killed and wounded and billions of dollars were wasted.
He addressed the US president-elected and said the people of Afghanistan wanted to see Trump in the white house who would help bring the Afghan war to an end that brought miseries to Americans and Afghans.
The HIA leader said continuation of Afghan war would not be in the interest of American people. “Ask the US generals what they achieved in the 15-year long conflict,” he questioned.
Hikmatyar asked the US leadership to let the people of Afghanistan to decide their future and resolve their own issues. (Pajhwok)