ISLAMABAD: After the failure of marathon meetings and dialogue to reunite the Hizbul Mujahideen, the Abdul Majid Dar faction of the Hizb has joined the Held Kashmir based Hizb-e-Islami.
| I'm not even going to speculate on whether they're affialiated with Hekmatyar's Hizb... |
âAfter the meetings during the last one month failed to reunite the Hizb, the splinter group decided to join the Hizb-e-Islami led by Masood Sarfraz,â sources told Daily Times. They said efforts for reunification by the two Hizb factions, prominent Kashmiri leadership and the Jamaat-e-Islami had failed to unite the organisation. The late Abdul Majid Dar, a renowned Kashmiri commander, who was expelled by Hizb Supreme Commander Syed Salahudin, led the splinter group.
| Syed also had Dar bumped off... |
âAll top commanders of the Dar group and majority of its mujahideen joined the Hizb-e-Islami but some mujahideen refused to work under the new flag and leadership and they returned to their parent organisation,â sources said. âHizb Supreme Commander Syed Salahuddin made it clear that the organisation would not welcome back in its folds the commanders from the Dar group but the mujahideen wanting to rejoin the Hizb were welcome to do so,â sources added. âSome 50 to 60 mujahideen rejoined the Hizb.â
| "Yeah. Sure. Come on back. We can always use cannon fodder..." |
Sources said the development would also be a setback for the Hizb in terms of manpower as more then 350 mujahideen are no longer with it. |