Gulbuddin Hekmatyar [a] (born 1 August 1949) [2] is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker. He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin political party, so called after Mohammad Yunus Khalis split from Hezbi Islami in 1979 to found Hezb-i Islami Khalis .

The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (Persian: حزب اسلامی گلبدین; abbreviated HIG), also referred to as Hezb-e-Islami [5] or Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), [6] is an Afghan political party and paramilitary organization, originally founded in 1976 as Hezb-e-Islami and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

May 4, 2017 · Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rained rockets on the Afghan capital in the 1990s and was responsible for thousands of deaths. The country's president welcomed him back Thursday in the...

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Pashto: ګلبدين حكمتيار; born 1 August 1949) [2] is an Afghan politician. He was a mujahideen leader. He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin political party. [3] He was the Prime Minister [broken anchor] twice during the 1990s.

Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) is an offshoot of that original Hezb-e-Islami, and is a virulently anti-Western insurgent group whose goal is to replace the Western-backed Afghan Government with an Islamic state rooted in sharia in line with Hekmatyar’s vision of a …

Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is an insurgent group active in Afghanistan. It is a splinter group of one of the prominent , and the most radical of the seven mujahedeen factions fighting the Soviets in the 1980s.

Apr 29, 2024 · NEW DELHI: In Afghanistan, where the voice of dissent is seldom heard, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an ex-warlord and former prime minister, has emerged as an outspoken critic of the Taliban regime ...

Mar 23, 2010 · Former mujahideen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is one of the most controversial figures in modern Afghan history. A former prime minister, he is remembered chiefly for his role in the bloody civil...

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, originally from Baghlan, is the head and founder of Hezbi Islami. Hekmatyar, who is now in his late forties, first studied at the military academy; then in 1968, he switched to the engineering department of Kabul University.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Exiled Afghan Insurgent, Nears a Comeback. The leader of Hezb-i-Islami, known for making and breaking alliances, is trying to work another deal.