The Hizb-e Islami chief and former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has rejected an amnesty and dialogue offer by Afghanistan Reconciliation Commission and said he will continue 'holy war' against foreign troops.

Head of Afghanistan's Reconciliation Commission Sibghatullah Mujadedi announced last week that Taliban chief Mullah Omar and Hizb-e-Islami leader Hekmatyar are not excluded from the government amnesty offer. "The Commission should have in fact asked the American troops to quit Afghanistan instead of asking the Mujahideen to lay down arms.

Presence of Americans is the basic cause of war in Afghanistan. We reject any offer for dialogue and will not accept any amnesty from the Americans or their puppets in Afghanistan," Hekmatyar said in a Pashto language statement received here.

"I don't know who has appointed the Commission either by the American or by the US-backed Afghan authorities. If it is appointed by the Afghan authorities, then they don't have any power to make such offer," the Hizb chief said.

He said an American military spokesman has himself rejected the offer made by the Afghanistan Reconciliation Commission. "The Commission had asked the Mujahideen to accept the Afghanistan Constitution but we are of the opinion that the constitution has been framed by the Americans and the Loya Jirga for the Commission was convened by the Americans.

"The Afghan authorities are themselves so powerless that they daily tell Americans to inform them about their military operations, but the American never informed them and a recent example is the bombardment of Alishang district of Lughman province. The Reconciliation Commission was making the offer when the American troops rained Lughman with bombs."

He said the Americans neither informed the Afghan authorities nor trust them 'and that's why they don't bother to bomb any area they want'. "Afghanistan cannot see any peace stability due to the presence of American and other foreign forces. Unless Afghans have their own government we cannot form national army or police," the statement added.

Hekmatyar said that the American forces are preparing such army and police in Afghanistan that can fight against their own people. "Rise against the Americans, British and other foreign forces and defend your homeland," he urged Afghans.