Editing Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (section)

==Relatives==
Some of Hekmatyar's relatives have served or are suspected of serving as his deputies.

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! Name || Relation || Role || Notes
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| [[Shahabuddin Hekmatyar]] || brother || || Arrested due to his ties with Gulbuddin in August 2008.<ref name=Quqnoos2008-08-19>{{cite news|url=http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1387|title=Police arrest Hekmatyar's brother|date=2008-08-17|publisher=Quqnoos News Service|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524090549/https://www.webcitation.org/5gOuUvd7F?url=http://quqnoos.com/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=view&id=138|archive-date=2024-05-24|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Dawn2008-08-18>{{cite news|url=http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/18/nat3.htm|title=Hekmatyar's brother 'detained'|date=2008-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080825023855/http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/18/nat3.htm|archive-date=2008-08-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> Released in January 2009.<ref name=TheNewsInternational-2009-10-14>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=157018|title=Govt releases brother of Hekmatyar|publisher=[[The News International]]|date=2009-01-13|access-date=2010-05-22|quote=His other son, Abdullah Shahab, who was held by the US forces in Kunar province of Afghanistan two years back is still languishing in the heavily guarded Bagram Prison in Afghanistan.}}</ref>
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| Abdullah Shabab || nephew || || Son of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's brother, Shahabuddin; Captured in 2007.<ref name=TheNewsInternational-2009-10-14/>
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| Salahuddin Hekmatyar || nephew || Director of Islamic University || Son of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's brother, Shahabuddin
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| [[Habiburahman Hekmatyar]] || son || spokesman || Gave interviews describing Gulbuddin's position in peace negotiations in 2010.<ref name=Sify2010-11-18>{{cite news|url=http://www.sify.com/news/hekmatyar-willing-for-cease-fire-if-coalition-forces-stay-within-main-bases-news-international-klsnOfcddbf.html|title=Hekmatyar willing for cease-fire if coalition forces stay within main bases|website=[[Sify]]|date=2010-11-18|access-date=2011-12-11|quote=The BBC quoted Habib-ur-Rahman, son of Hezb-e-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, as saying that his father was willing to give up fighting, and added that a ceasefire was also possible while US troops remained in Afghanistan, 'If they remain in their bases, then we will not attack them.'|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020200319/http://www.sify.com/news/hekmatyar-willing-for-cease-fire-if-coalition-forces-stay-within-main-bases-news-international-klsnOfcddbf.html|archive-date=2012-10-20}}

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| [[Ghairat Baheer]] || son-in-law || || A medical doctor who spent four years in [[black sites|CIA custody]].<ref name=CbcAmber2011-09-27>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/detained-canadian-a-casualty-of-war-on-terror-1.1099179|title=Detained Canadian a 'casualty of war on terror': Questions raised about delay in consular help|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=2011-09-27|access-date=2011-09-27|first=Amber|last=Hildebrandt|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927215610/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/26/canadian-egyptian-detainee-bagram.html|archive-date=2011-09-27}}</ref><ref name=Msn2010-03-28>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/36071994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223181251/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36071994/|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 December 2017|title=Death shed light on CIA 'Salt Pit' near Kabul: Handling of terror suspect led to inquiry by agency's inspector general|publisher=[[MSN]]|date=2010-03-28|access-date=2011-09-27|first1=Adam|last1=Goldman|first2=Kathy|last2=Gannon}}</ref><ref name=Msn2010-04-06>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36197753|title=CIA prisoner said to have once rescued Karzai: Suspected insurgent froze to death while in U.S. custody in 2002|publisher=[[MSN]]|date=2010-04-06|access-date=2011-09-27|quote=Rahman was captured about three weeks before his death in a raid in the Pakistani Capital of Islamabad against Hezb-e-Islami, an Afghan insurgent group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which was believed to have ties to al-Qaida. Rahman was arrested along with Hekmatyar's son-in-law, Dr. Ghairat Baheer.|first1=Adam|last1=Goldman|first2=Kathy|last2=Gannon}}</ref><ref name=Rawa2008-05-30>{{cite news|url=http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/05/30/gulbuddin-hekmatyar-8217-s-spokesman-and-son-in-law-freed-in-kabul.html|title=Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's spokesman and son-in-law freed in Kabul: He was taken for meetings with President Karzai|publisher=[[RAWA]]|date=2008-05-30|access-date=2011-09-27|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117073323/http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/05/30/gulbuddin-hekmatyar-8217-s-spokesman-and-son-in-law-freed-in-kabul.html|archive-date=2011-11-17}}</ref><ref name=AfghanBios291>{{cite news|url=http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=291&task=view&total=1&start=0&Itemid=2|title=Bahir, Dr. Ghairat Baheer|publisher=Database - Who is who in Afghanistan?|date=2011-02-27|access-date=2011-12-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218080410/http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=291&task=view&total=1&start=0&Itemid=2|archive-date=2013-02-18}}</ref>
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| [[Jamal Jamaluddin Hikmatyar]] || son || || Founded the [[Youths Reforming Organization]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=669&task=view&total=2386&start=812&Itemid=2|title=Hekmatyar, Jamal Jamaluddin Hikmatyar|publisher=Database - Who is who in Afghanistan?|date=2011-04-15|access-date=2011-12-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217232746/http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=669&task=view&total=2386&start=812&Itemid=2|archive-date=2013-02-17}}</ref>
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| [[Firoz Feroz Hekmatyar]] || son || diplomat || Represented the HiG at a peace conference in [[the Maldives]] in 2010.<ref>
{{cite news|url=http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=667&task=view&total=2381&start=804&Itemid=2|title=Hekmatyar, Firoz Feroz|publisher=Database - Who is who in Afghanistan?|date=2011-04-15|access-date=2011-12-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217235438/http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=667&task=view&total=2381&start=804&Itemid=2|archive-date=2013-02-17}}</ref>
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| [[Ahktar Muhammed]] || brother || || Gulbuddin's brother.<ref name=AfghanBios772>{{cite news|url=http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=772&task=view&total=2367&start=921&Itemid=2|title=Jareer, Houmayoun Jarir|publisher=Database - Who is who in Afghanistan?|date=2010-07-11|access-date=2011-12-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217235205/http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=772&task=view&total=2367&start=921&Itemid=2|archive-date=2013-02-17}}</ref>
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| [[Houmayoun Jarir Jareer]] || son in-law || || Either Gulbuddin's son-in-law, or the son-in-law of Ahktar Muhammed, Gulbuddin's brother.<ref name=AfghanBios772/>
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| [[Habibullah Shahab]] || nephew || || Born in 1995, he was killed by a US airstrike on April 21, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=2111&task=view&total=2176&start=1797&Itemid=2|title=Shahab, Habibullah|publisher=Database - Who is who in Afghanistan?|date=2011-04-15|access-date=2011-12-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218145346/http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=2111&task=view&total=2176&start=1797&Itemid=2|archive-date=2013-02-18}}</ref> He was reported to have played a role in ''"the jihad against US Forces"''.
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