Hekmatyar's never-ending Afghan war - Aljazeera

The year was 1985. In the heat of the CIA-backed Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union, a delegation of Afghan resistance leaders met with US President Ronald Reagan in the White House, where they were declared the "moral equivalent" to the founding fathers of the United States. - Hekmatyar's never-ending Afghan war
Power struggle over Afghanistan - Kai Eide, a senior Norwegian diplomat