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Gulbaddn Hekmatyrar, head of the Hezbi-i-Islami guerrilla group and one of the most hard-line of the insurgent leaders, said that Moscow's recent statements about wanting to pull out of Afghanistan appear genuine...
...main rebel groups, based in Peshawar, the Jamiat-i-Islami, (Islamic Society) led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former law professor at Kabul University, is the strongest in Kunar. Every Jamiat guerrilla I encountered said that he wanted to be fighting, but not one of them was in combat. When this inconsistency was noted to Malik Makon, a bearded, 6-ft. leader of 300 rebels from Chenar village, the swarthy warrior grabbed my sleeve and shouted: "Tell Rabbani we need bullets and something to shoot down helicopters! Even our tea is almost gone...
...grab by Gailani for leadership of the insurgents would be challenged-probably without much success -by at least two other rebel leaders. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 32, an engineer who studied at Kabul University, is highly regarded for his administrative skills. But his base of support, an organization called Hezb-i-Islami, may be too rigidly Muslim in outlook for some rebels. Another Muslim group, Jamiat-i-Islami, is led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, 40, a former professor of religion at Kabul University. Although Jamiat is considered more tolerant than Hekmatyar's group, Rabbani has no personal following outside of his native...
...means have all the reprisals been the work of the army. Bengalis also massacred some 500 suspected collaborators, such as members of the right-wing religious Jammat-e-Islami and other minor parties. The Biharis, non-Bengali Moslems who fled from India to Pakistan after partition in 1947, were favorite?and sometimes innocent?targets. Suspected sympathizers have been hacked to death in their beds or even beheaded by guerrillas as a warning to other villagers. More ominous is the growing confrontation along the porous 1,300-mile border, where many of the Pakistani army's 70,000 troops are trying...