Peshawar Seven

The Peshawar Seven were seven organizations of Mudjahedeen fighters against the pro-Soviet Afghan government, organized from a overwhelming 80 supplicants by Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). Those organizations would go to Peshawar, Pakistan for supplies, funds, and orders. For a time, it was an actual political front, Ittehad-i-Islami B'rai Azadi-i-Afghanistan (Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan), which later broke up, its name retained by the faction of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

It was the dominant external support to the Sunni mudjahadeen, although there was also the Tehran Eight for the Shi'a.

In July, 1979, before the Soviet invasion, President Jimmy Carter for the first time authorized the CIA to start assisting the Mudjahideen rebels with money and non-military supplies sent via Pakistan. More than 80 Afghan groups asked for support, and the CIA asked Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, "You know the language and culture, not us." I

They included:
 * 1) Burhanuddin Rabbani's Afghanistan National Liberation Front
 * 2) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
 * 3) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf and the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, also known as Ittehad
 * 4) Yunis Khalis and Hezb-e-Islami Khalis
 * 5) Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, National Islamic Front for Afghanistan
 * 6) Sayyid Ahmad Gailani, Revolutionary Islamic Movement
 * 7) Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, Afghanistan National Liberation Front