By 1990, he was the leader of the organization Tahreek-e-Jihad-e-Islami (TJI). In 1991, Dar merged this group with the Hizb, bringing in several thousand followers.[6] In the following years, rivalries developed within the Hizb, culminating in a killing of 21 people in a Azad Kashmir village in near the border in 1998.[5]