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| Demystifying Hekmatyar’s Pashtunism | |
| 2017-12-12 | |
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] On November 4th, Gullbudin Hekmatyar held a presser on parliamentary elections of Afghanistan which will be held in July next year. The presser was covered heavily by the media only to show Hekmatyar’s leadership as a Pashtun leader. Hekmatyar, a known warlord who earned fame during the Civil War, with undisputed loyalty to Pakistain, has misrepresented Pashtuns for decades. Hekmatyar’s imposed leadership as a Pashtun by domestic and foreign media has created many ethnic issues among Afghans in Afghanistan. Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, influenced by Sayed Qutb,
A Brief Review of Groups and Their Leaders The Afghan Civil War was devastating and it divided the nation, but it also raised many questions on the legitimacy of the leadership that had emerged during the war. Multiple groups were involved in the Afghan civil war supported by its own ethnicity. Major groups were, Jamaat -e- Islami, a group led by a Tajiks (some Tajiks were also pro-Sitam-e-Milli); Junbishi-e-Mili was mainly an Uzbek group led by Dostum | |
| Posted by:Fred |