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Gulbadin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
ګلبدین حکمتیار
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Prime Minister of Afghanistan
In office
26 June 1996 – 11 August 1997
President Burhanuddin Rabbani
Preceded by Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (Acting)
Succeeded by Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai
In office
17 June 1993 – 28 June 1994
President Burhanuddin Rabbani
Preceded by Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani
Succeeded by Arsala Rahmani Daulat (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1947-06-26) 26 June 1947 (age 70)
Imam Sahib District, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan
Political party Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
Alma mater Kabul University
Military career
Allegiance Hezbi Islami (1975–1977)
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (1977–2016)
Years of service 1975–2016
Battles/wars Soviet–Afghan War
Afghan Civil War
War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Pashto: ګلبدين حکمتيار‎; Persian: گلبدین حکمتیار‎‎; born 26 June 1947) is an Afghan politician and warlord. He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party, ideologically influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood and more specifically Sayyid Qutb. He twice served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan during the 1990s.

After escaping from prison in Afghanistan in 1973, he moved to Pakistan. When the Soviet occupation began in 1979, the CIA began funding his rapidly growing Hezb-e Islami mujahideen organization through the Pakistani ISI. Following the ouster of Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah in 1992, Hekmatyar and other warlords began a civil war, which led to the deaths of around 50,000 civilians in Kabul alone. In the meantime, Hekmatyar was promoted to becoming 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 party militia to a new armed campaign against Hamid Karzai's government and the international coalition in Afghanistan. In 2016, he signed a peace deal with the Afghan government, allowing his return to Afghanistan after almost 20 years in exile.


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