[2] Karmal appointed a six-member group of people who were not political party members to develop the National Reconciliation Policy.
[3] Mohammad Najibullah later intensified and broadened the proposals in 1987 to stop the Afghan Civil War which had continued since 1978 after the Saur Revolution.
Gorbachev pushed new Afghan president Mohammad Najibullah to come with a peace proposal in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
On 15 January 1987, Najibullah requested a six-month ceasefire between Mujahideen and government forces, and made other proposals as part of the National Reconciliation Policy.
The 1988 Geneva Accords did not set rules for political processes linked with these local peace arrangements; it was limited to withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan.