Hezbi Islami

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Hezb-e-Islami (also Hezb-e Islami, Hezb-i-Islami, Hezbi-Islami, Hezbi Islami), lit. Islamic Party,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was an Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union.Template:Citation needed Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Afghanistan in 1976.Template:Citation needed

It grew out of the Muslim Youth organization, an Islamist organization founded in Kabul by students and teachers at Kabul University in 1969 to combat communism in Afghanistan.<ref name="CWDI" /> Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami.<ref name="CWDI">Template:Cite book</ref> Another source describes it as having splintered away from Burhanuddin Rabbani's original Islamist party, Jamiat-e Islami, in 1976, after Hekmatyar found that group too moderate and willing to compromise with others.<ref name="Haqqani-173">Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1979, Mulavi Younas Khalis split with Hekmatyar and established his own Hezbi Islami, known as the Khalis faction, with its power base in Nangarhar.Template:Citation needed Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction is since then referred to as the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG.

See also

• Amin Karim senior board member

External links

• Sedra, Mark. "The Taliban still larger than life", Asia Times Online, 2004-03-11.
• Afghanistan online. Political parties/groups and leaders in Afghanistan
• Declassified October 8, 2002 Report by DIA