Munib, Mohammad Hashim Maulawi

2. Previous Functions:
Hekmatyar Commander
Provincial Peace Council Head Kunar Province (2012)

3. Biodata:
Maulvi Mohammad Hashem Munib was on his way home from Friday prayers when he was attacked by a suicide attacker. One eyewitness said that both Munib and the attacker had been torn to pieces, with body parts littering the scene.(20120406)

Munib was a former senior commander of Hezb-e-Islami, one of the so-called "mujahedeen": armed groups that fought Soviet troops in the 1980s. The group, founded by former mujhaideen commander Gulbuddin Hekmetyar, is now seen as the second largest anti-government group in Afghanistan. Munib left the group before Karzai took power and had never taken up arms against the current government.