The United Nations has removed Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar from its list of designated terrorists. It also lifted the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo imposed on the insurgent leader. The Security Council's al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee said in a statement that it has removed Hekmatyar's name from the ISIS (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List. <br/><br/>A former Prime Minister, and a prominent anti-Soviet commander in the 1980s was listed on February 20, 2003. He had signed a landmark peace agreement with Kabul last September. Following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan and fall of the Taliban, the US State Department designated him as a terrorist, accusing him of taking part in and supporting attacks by al-Qaeda and the Taliban.