Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
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Taliban Are Pak Army Proxies, Not Pashtun Nationalists - Part VI
in Belgium. That sez it all.... and Afghan cops in Afghanistan - the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Shura led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... from Rantburg Read more »
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Let the Buzkashi begin!
automatically implied that they could take over the place the next day through a combination of Mullah Omar, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Haqqanis. They had also assumed that they held the cards because international forces depended on their goodwill to make from The Acorn Read more »
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Taliban poetry: the gentle, flowery side of the story?
the 1980s, an artist friend of mine made a poster for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami, a militia later allied with the Taliban. The poster depicted a bearded Afghan mujahid clutching Qur'an and Kalashnikov and standing atop a slaughtered Russian bear. from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Numbers of troops, fighters in Afghanistan
organization is run by former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a veteran of the Afghan-Soviet war and the Afghan Civil war. Delegations have approached President Hamid Karzai with proposals for peace talks, but no agreement is likely as long as foreign from Sify Read more »
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There's no "I" in Afghan endgame
after the European representative for the armed faction of Hizb-e Islami, the group led by former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, also called off talks with the U.S. Hizb-e Islami's about-face only a few months after the group sent a delegation from Foreign Policy Read more »
