June Chalis

Mawlawi Junis Chalis (* 1919 in Nangarhar Province , Afghanistan ; † July 19, 2006 ) was an Afghan politician , Mujahideen leader and founder of the Islamist party Hezb-e Eslami (Chalis) .

Chalis came from the border region with Pakistan and belonged to the Khugiani tribe of the Pashtuns . He studied Islam in the Dar ul-Ulum Deoband in Deoband . He was considered very well educated and published a translation of the book "Al-'adala al-idschtima'iyya fi-l-islam" (Social Law in Islam) by the Islamist Sayyid Qutb in the 1960s . After the coup of Mohammed Daoud Khan and the conversion of Afghanistan into a republic in 1973, Chalis fled to Pakistan. There he became a co-founder of the Islamist party Hezb-e Eslami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyār . He returned in 1978 after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In 1979, due to differences with Hekmatyār, he founded his own Islamist party Hezb-e Eslami (Chalis) of the same name and joined the mujahideen as a warlord . After the Communist Democratic People's Party of Afghanistan lost its rule in 1992, Chalis was briefly a member of the interim government. His troops marched into Jalalabad on November 14, 2001, with the Taliban peacefully withdrawing, after the Taliban had taken the city without a fight in 1996 when the then provincial governor Haji Qadir defected .

Chalis did not consider himself a member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda , but sympathized with many of their ideas and actively supported them.

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1. ^ O. Roy: Islam and resistance in Afghanistan p. 128, Cambridge University Press, 1990 ISBN 0-521-39700-6 online at Google Books
2. ^ O. Roy p. 70
3. ↑ New Mexico Daily Lobo from November 15, 2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ TAZ of November 19, 2001

Web links

• Biography at khyber.org (English)
• Disclosure of Caliph 'death (English)