Taliban Evicts Islamist Warlord From His Home After Days of Controversy

VANCOUVER, CANADA — After days of controversy, sources close to Gulbudin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e-Islami confirmed that the Taliban have evicted him from his residence in Western Kabul.

Mr. Hekmatyar, a notorious warlord who refused to join the post-Taliban political coalition in 2001 spent much of the last two decades as an insurgency leader in hiding. Known for his close ties to the Pakistani intelligence before the Taliban dethroned him in regional proxy politics, Hekmatyar owed much of his infamous reputation to his carnage in Kabul during the civil war in the early 1990s.