Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Afghan politician

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1947

Place of Birth: Kunduz, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan

Profession: politician, military leader

Nationality: Afghanistan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

  • Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Pashto: ?????? ????????; Persian: ?????? ????????; born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician and former warlord.
  • He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party and twice served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan during the 1990s.
  • Hekmaytar joined the Muslim Youth organization as a student in the early 1970s, where he was known for his Islamic radicalism rejected by much of the organization.
  • He spent time in Pakistan before returning to Afghanistan when the Soviet occupation began in 1979.
  • The United States' CIA began funding his rapidly growing Hezb-e Islami mujahideen organization through the Pakistani ISI.
  • He received more CIA funding than any other mujahideen leader during the Soviet-Afghan War.Following the ouster of Soviet-backed Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah in 1992, Hekmatyar declined to form part of the new government and he then with other warlords engaged in a civil war, leading to the death of around 50,000 civilians in Kabul alone.
  • Hekmatyar was accused of being the most responsible for rocket attacks on the city.
  • In the meantime, as part of peace and power-sharing efforts by Ahmad Shah Massoud, Hekmatyar became Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1993 to 1994 and again briefly in 1996, before the Taliban takeover of Kabul forced him to flee to Iran's capital Tehran.Sometime after the Taliban's fall in 2001 he went to Pakistan, leading his paramilitary to a new armed campaign against Hamid Karzai's government and the international coalition in Afghanistan but was largely unsuccessful.
  • In 2016, he signed a peace deal with the Afghan government, allowing his return to Afghanistan after almost 20 years in exile.
  • Hekmatyar remains a controversial figure - the New York Times once described him as "perhaps the most brutal of a generally brutal group".

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