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The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG. Persian: حزب اسلامی گلبدین) is an Afghan islamist political party.The original Hezb-e-Islami was founded in 1977 by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who has later turned the head of HIG. The other faction of Hezb-e Islami was headed by Mulavi Younas Khalis who made a split with Hekmatyar and established his own Hezb-e Islami in 1979. It has become known as the Khalis faction and its power base was in Nangarhar.
