Hezbi Islami

Hizb-e Islami (also Hezbi Islami, Hezb-i-Islami, Hezbi-Islami, Hezb-e-Islami), meaning "Islamic Party" is an Islamic organization commonly known for fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Led by and founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Pakistan in 1975 and 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. Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi ["The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism", Olivier Roy, Antoine Sfeir, editors, (2007), p.132]

In 1979, Mulavi Younas Khalis split with Hekmatyar and established his own Hezbi Islami, known as the Khalis faction, with its powerbase in
Nangarhar.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction is referred to the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG, and is considered a terrorist organization by Coalition Forces in Afghanistan.Fact|date=February 2008 Neither Hezb-e-Islami nor Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin are on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 2001-2006. [ [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2001/5258.htm "2001 Report on Foreign Terrorist Organizations"] , [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2002/12535.htm "Fact Sheet: Foreign Terrorist Organizations List" October 23, 2002] , [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2003/17065.htm "Fact Sheet: Foreign Terrorist Organizations List" January 30, 2003] , [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2004/40945.htm "Fact Sheet: Foreign Terrorist Organization Designations Table" December 30, 2004] , [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm "Fact Sheet:Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)" October 11, 2005] , [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/65275.htm "Country Reports on Terrorism: Chapter 8 -- Foreign Terrorist Organizations" April 28, 2006] ] However Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin is on the additional list called "Groups of Concern." [ [http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/April/20070425112939idybeekcm0.9128382.html "U.S. Designates Foreign Terrorist Organizations: List includes 42 groups, 43 others deemed “of concern”" April 30, 2007] ]

Today, the non-violent faction of the Hizb-e Islami is a registered political party in Afghanistan, led by Arghandiwal. [ [http://www.afghan-web.com/politics/parties.html Political parties/groups and leaders in Afghanistan] ]

ee also

*Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
*Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

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External Links

* [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC11Ag02.html Sedra, Mark. "The Taliban still larger than life"] , "Asia Times Online", 2004-03-11.
* [http://www.afghan-web.com/politics/parties.html Afghanistan online. Political parties/groups and leaders in Afghanistan]