List of political parties in Afghanistan

This article lists political parties in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has a multi-party system in development with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. No political party is permitted to exist that advocates anything that is deemed to go against Islamic morality.

The current law governing the formation of political parties was promulgated in 2009, and requires parties to have at least 10,000 members, (previously they had only needed 700 members).^[1] The Afghan Ministry of Justice has registered 84 parties since the new law took effect.^[2]

Major parties

English name	Original name	Ideology	Notes
Afghanistan United Nation Party	Afghanistan Motahid Millat Gowand ( افغانستان متحد ملت ګوند )	Socialism Secularism Gender Equality
National Enlightenment Consensus Party of Afghanistan	Hizb e Ejma-e-Milli Afghanistan Roshangaran (حزب اجماع روشنگران ملي افغانستان)	Socialism Secularism Gender Equality	Founded by Mohammad Saboor Formuli
National United Party of Afghanistan	National United Party of Afghanistan	Socialism Secularism Gender Equality
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan	Solidarity party of Afghanistan	Socialism Secularism Gender Equality
Hizb ut-Tahrir	Hizb ut-Tahrir	Islamism
Afghan Peace Movement	Afghan Peace Movement	Socialism Secularism
Islamic Party	Hezb-e Islami	Islamism	Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Republican Party of Afghanistan	Hezbi Jumhori Afghanistan	Republicanism	Founded by Sebghatullah Sanjar
Islamic Society	Jamiat-e Islami	Islamism
Islamic Movement of Afghanistan	Harakat-e Islami-yi	Islamism
Afghan Social Democratic Party	Afghan Mellat	Social democracy
Islamic United Party of Afghanistan	Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan	Islamism
Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan	Ittehad-I Islami Bara-yi Azadi Afghanistan	Islamism
National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan	Junbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan	Secularism
National Rescue Front	Hezb Jabha Nijat Mili	Islamism
Afghan Liberal Party	Hezbe Azadikhwa Afghanistan	Secularism
Moderation Party of Afghanistan	حزب اعتدال افغانستان	Afghan nationalism, Democracy

Minor parties

Afghanistan Welfare's Party (Hizb-e-Refah e Afghanistan)
National Movement (Basej-e Milli)
Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Afghanistan Coherence and Mutation Party (Majma e Haqiqat e Afghan)
National Congress Party (Hezb-e-Congra-e-Mili Afghanistan)
National Islamic Front (Hezb-e-Mahaz-e-Mili Islami)
National Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Nuhzhat-e-Mili Afghanistan)
National Solidarity Movement (Hezb-e-Nahzat-e-Hambastagee Mili)
National Sovereignty Party (Hezb-e-Eqtedar-e-Mili)
National Islamic Unity Party (Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Mili Islami)
National Solidarity Party (Hezb-e-Paiwand Mili)
New Afghanistan Party (Hezb-e Afghanistan Naween)
Pashtoons Social Democratic Party (De Pashtano Tolaneez Wolaswaleez Gwand)
People's Islamist Movement (Harakat-e Islami-yi)
People's Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-e Mardum-e Afghanistan)
Progressive Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Truth and Justice (Hezb-e-Haq-wa-Edalat)
Unit Party
Youth Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Hambastagee Mili Jawanan) led by Doctor Fahim Tokhi
Afghan Liberal Party (Hizbe Azadikhwai Afghanistan)
Watan Party of Afghanistan

Former, banned and unrecognized parties

Since the coup in 1973, Afghanistan has had many different political parties. These include Mohammed Daoud Khan's National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan, the People's Democratic Party and the Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan from the communist era, and the Northern Alliance that took power after the Fall of Kabul in April 1992, and ran the country until the Taliban's coup in 1996.

English name	Ideology	Notes
Afghanistan Liberation Organization	Communism, Maoism	Underground maoist group founded in 1973 by Faiz Ahmad.
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan	Communism, Maoism	Small, underground Maoist party, founded in 2004. Aims to wage a people's war against the American occupation, and turn Afghanistan into a socialist state.
Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan	Marxism, Islamic socialism, secularism	Formed by president Najibullah in 1990 in order to get more supporters for his socialist government. Ceased to exist as a formal party after the fall of Najibullah's government in 1992. Most members have fled the country or left the party, and many members were executed by the Taliban regime. Still claims to exist, but is not formally recognized as a party.
National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan	Republicanism, Secularism	Party founded by first president Mohammad Daoud Khan. Only legal party under his rule. Ceased to exist after a bloody military coup by the communists in 1978.
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan	Communism, secularism, progressivism	Communist party founded in 1965. Gained power in a 1978 coup, and was the dominant party of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1990. Replaced by the Democratic Watan Party in 1990.
People's Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan (Feda'ian)
Shalleh-ye Javiyd	Communism, Maoism	Banned in 1969 for opposing the Shah regime.
Taliban	Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, Pashtun nationalism	Armed group, founded in 1994. Ruled most of the country from 1996 to 2001. Ousted and banned by the US invasion in 2001. Has been at war with the US-backed government in Afghanistan and US-led Coalition forces since.

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