On October 20, the leader of the Hizb-e-Islami (HeI) party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, at an press conference said that the United States has been "defeated in Afghanistan," adding that Washington has "no choice except to leave the country," reports Tolo News. HeI supremoGulbuddin Hekmatyar made this remark in Islamabad. “Current talks in Doha are between the team of Arg (Presidential Palace) and the Taliban. These talks are not intra-Afghan talks, because there is no presence of many Afghan political parties in these talks, we are not there. There is a need for consensus first so that we can go towards talks with a unified idea,” said Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.