Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
alternative words: Hekmatyar, Engineer Hekmatyar
keywords: famous person , statesman
related topics: Taliban , Burhanuddin Rabbani , Ahmad Shah Masoud , Hezb e Islami
related web sites: http://www.afghan-web.com/bios/today/ghekmatyar.html
explanation: Born in 1948 in Konduz province of northern Afghanistan. After a military academy, he entered Kabul university to study engineering. There, he participated to an Islamic student movement and was jailed for killing of a Maoist student. He fled then to Pakistan and founded his party, Hezb e Islami. After a collapse of the communist regime in 1992, he entered a conflict with Rabbani but there were reconciled after the capture of Kabul by Taliban in 1996. He is living now in Iran.