Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Pashto:ګلبدین حکمتیار‎; Persian:گلبدین حکمتیار‎‎; born 26 June 1947) is the former Prime Minister of Afghanistan and founder and active leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party, and a designated "global terrorist" by the United States. After escaping from prison in Afghanistan in 1973, he moved to Pakistan. When the Soviet war in Afghanistan began in 1979, the CIA began funding his rapidly growing Hezb-e Islami mujahideen organization through the ISI.