Hekmatyar biography

Biodata: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was born in in Imam Sahib district of the Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan and is a member of the Kharoti tribe of the Ghilzai Pashtun.

Hekmatyar biography: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is an Afghan

His father, Ghulam Qader, who migrated to Kunduz, is originally from the central Ghazni province. Afghan businessman and Kharoti tribal leader Gholam Serwar Nasher deemed Hekmatyar to be a bright young man and sent him to the Mahtab Qala military academy in , but he was expelled due to his political views two years later. He then attended Kabul University's engineering department starting in Hekmatyar thus earned the nickname of "Engineer Hekmatyar," a term frequently used by his followers and allies, though he was unable to complete his degree.

He remained active at the University until a incident in which he was implicated in the killing of a rival member of a Maoist group, and sent to jail for two years. He was later released when Daoud Khan seized power in Partly due to studying in the Kabul University, Hekmatyar's communist ideology was affected by Islamic extremism.

He joined the underground Muslim Youth group and his radicalism began to surface. The islamist movement had two main tendencies: the Jamiat-i islami "islamic society" led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, that advocated a gradualist strategy to gain power, through infiltration of society and the state apparatus. The other movement, called Hezb-i islami "islamic party" , was led by Hekmatyar, who favored a more radical approach, in the shape of an uprising led by a vanguard of islamist intellectuals.