All offices of the “Islamic Party of Afghanistan” (IPA) of former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are to be closed and their employees arrested. This order was issued by the Ministry of Justice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” reports TOLOnews.

This was announced by the politician's son Habib Ur Rahman Hekmatyar, who published a copy of a letter from the Kunduz provincial authorities to the Afghan Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, which, among other things, states that “there is information that “from time to time activities are still being conducted and materials are being published in the IPA offices.”

The founder of the IPA, Gulbeddin Hekmatyar, was prime minister of Afghanistan from 1993-1994 and 1996. He was declared a terrorist by the US in 2003 and blacklisted by the UN, but was amnestied in 2017. During the US and NATO intervention, fought alongside the Taliban against them, but later took a neutral position. The militant wing of the IPA was considered the second largest paramilitary force after the Taliban.

After the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, Hekmatyar was completely suspended from political activities and even evicted from his Kabul mansion.