Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to participate in 2014 elections

[khushal]

Ideology for sure.
But weren't both once not so long away friends?

I would not call them friends but they made alliances out of convenience and necessity.

[khushal]

I really don't want to put this smiley, cause actually it is not to laugh but bitter and sad.
But i always get impressed what career this Dostum made, or at least what they write about him. He really seems to have associated with every kind of movements that exist or existed.

However it seems that Dosum is no exception, at least what you get to read there seemed to be really few people who were fidel to their own words or ways of thinking at least.

You are right, he is not an exception. What happened was after the Soviets invaded, the US put forth an idea to organize the resistance under the former King but the ISI was completely against it. The ISI wanted divided groups under their influence to ensure dominance over its neighbor. One group would have had some leverage with pakistan, but many groups made it possible for the ISI to use the different groups against each other ensuring dominance.