Jamiat-e-Islami

Ahmad Zia Massoud Mr. Massoud is a senior leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, the main grouping of the country's Tajik population.

Ethnic Leaders Forge Alliance Against Karzai Maria Abi-Habib 2011

There he formed the Jamiat-e-Islami group after Afghanistan's king was toppled and forced into exile by a cousin, Mohammed Daoud, with the help of the country's communist Khalq and Parchami parties.

Slain Afghan ex-president sought peace 2011

On June 29, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an off-the-record meeting with various editors stated that "at least a quarter" of Bangladesh's population "swear by the Jamiat-e-Islami" and "are very anti-Indian" and "are in the clutches, many times, of the ISI."

Aparna Pande: India-Bangladesh: Sins of Omission & Commission Aparna Pande 2011

Ahmad Zia Massoud Mr. Massoud is a senior leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, the main grouping of the country's Tajik population.

Ethnic Leaders Forge Alliance Against Karzai Maria Abi-Habib 2011

The next day, pro-warlord websites and even Payam-e-Mujahid, the central organ of Jamiat-e-Islami in Kabul, published articles against me and wrote lies that I had run away when I was attacked by “mujahideen.”

A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009

This governor was part of the Jamiat-e-Islami party of Burhanuddin Rabbani, one of the warlords I had denounced in Kabul.

A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009

But before all that, he was the former senior commander of the Jamiat-e-Islami militia, and was named by Human Rights Watch in its 2005 report Blood Stained Hands as a key commander in the Afshar Massacre during which about 800 members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority were killed in a bout of murder, rape and looting in a civilian area of Kabul in September 1992.

Allison Kilkenny: Obama's Afghanistan Strategy: Familiar And Still Wrong 2009

For instance, he was sending gunmen to support the Jamiat-e-Islami forces who were ransacking Kabul.

A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009

As a commander of the Jamiat-e-Islami militia, he was named by Human Rights Watch in its 2005 report Blood Stained Hands as a key commander in the Afshar Massacre.

Derrick Crowe: Meet Your Afghan Warlords, Part One: Mohammed Qasim Fahim 2009

But before all that, he was the former senior commander of the Jamiat-e-Islami militia, and was named by Human Rights Watch in its 2005 report Blood Stained Hands as a key commander in the Afshar Massacre during which about 800 members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority were killed in a bout of murder, rape and looting in a civilian area of Kabul in September 1992.

Allison Kilkenny: CIA Pays Off Another Afghan Despot, Hopes for the Best 2009