Hekmatyar presidential candidate of July in Afghanistan

Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was accused of war crimes committed in the 1990s, started Saturday in the run-up to the presidential election in July.
Returned from exile in 2016, he remains a very controversial character. His party, Hezb-e-Islami, is held responsible for many abuses during the civil war, including the siege of Kabul, which killed thousands in 1992.
In 2003, the US State Department listed him as a terrorist on charges of colluding with al Qaeda and the Taliban, but Washington welcomed thirteen years later the amnesty granted to him by the United States. President Ashraf Ghani.
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