List of political parties in Afghanistan

Political parties are banned in Afghanistan under the current Taliban government. Previously, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan had a multi-party system in development with numerous political parties, in which no one party often had a chance of gaining power alone, and parties had to work with each other to form coalition governments. No political party was permitted to exist that advocated anything deemed to go against Islamic morality.

The Taliban movement took over the government by force in 2021, and has since ruled the country unopposed. In September 2022, Acting Deputy Minister of Justice Maulvi Abdul Karim stated that there is "no need" for political parties to be active. On 16 August 2023, the Taliban government formally banned all political parties in Afghanistan in a decree announced by Acting Justice Minister Abdul Hakim Haqqani, because according to them, there is no concept of political party in the Sharia and the political parties do not serve Afghanistan's interests.

Major parties under the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan All parties are now banned; the following is a list of major parties during the rule of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The law governing the formation of political parties was promulgated in 2009, and required parties to have at least 10,000 members, (previously they had only needed 700 members).

Logo Name Leader Position Ideology Wolesi Jirga seats Meshrano Jirga seats Watan Party of Afghanistan''''| Mir Afghan Bawary | Centre-left | Social DemocracySecularismGender Equality

| style="background-color:#"| | N/A | National Enlightenment Consensus Party of Afghanistan | N/A | N/A | SocialismSecularismGender Equality

| style="background-color:"| | N/A | Afghan Peace Movement | N/A | N/A | SocialismSecularism

| style="background-color:"| | | Jamiat-e-Islami (Afghanistan)| Salahuddin Rabbani | Centre | IslamismAfghan nationalismIslamic democracyRepublicanismCommunitarismModerate ProgressivismAfghan Tajik interestsAnti-CommunismAnti-SovietismAnti-Islamic extremismAnti-Taliban

| style="background-color:"| | N/A | National Rescue Front (Afghanistan) | N/A | N/A | TraditionalismIslamism

| style="background-color:"| | N/A | Afghan Liberal Party | N/A | N/A | SecularismLiberalism

| style="background-color:"| | N/A | Moderation Party of Afghanistan | N/A | style="text-align:center" | N/A | Afghan NationalismDemocracyModeratism

| style="background-color:"| | | Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan'' N/A Far-left CommunismMarxism–Leninism–MaoismAnti-Imperialism

Minor parties under the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Logo Name Leader Position Ideology Wolesi Jirga seats Meshrano Jirga seats N/A Welfare Party of Afghanistan N/A N/A Welfarism Logo Basej-e Milli Amrullah Saleh Centre Afghan nationalismAtlanticismModerate IslamismDemocratismDecentralizationReformismRepublicanismAnti-Taliban N/A Democratic Party of Afghanistan N/A N/A Democracy N/A Afghanistan Coherence and Mutation Party N/A N/A N/A National Congress Party of Afghanistan Abdul Latif Pedram Centre SecularismLiberalismFederalismAnti-Pashtun Nationalism National Islamic Front of Afghanistan Hamed Gailani Right-wing Afghan nationalismPashtun InterestsRoyalism (formerly) N/A National Movement of Afghanistan Ahmad Wali Massoud N/A N/A N/A National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan Sayed Ishaq Gailani N/A Monarchism N/A National Sovereignty Party N/A N/A N/A Logo National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan Sayed Mansur Naderi N/A Ismaili Shia interests N/A New Afghanistan Party Yunus Qanuni N/A N/A N/A Pashtoons Social Democratic Party Ali Khan Masood N/A SecularismSocial democracyLeft-Wing Pashtun nationalism N/A People's Islamic Movement of Afghanistan N/A N/A N/A N/A People's Party of Afghanistan N/A N/A Populism N/A Progressive Democratic Party of Afghanistan Mohammad Wali Arya N/A Social DemocracyDemocratic SocialismSecularismLabourismLeft-Wing NationaismLeft-Wing Populism N/A Truth and Justice Hanif Atmar Centre Multi-EthnicAnti-CorruptionReformismEurasianism N/A Unit Party Shir BazgarAbdul Haq Holomi N/A Islamism N/A Youth Solidarity Party of Afghanistan Doctor Fahim Tokhi N/A Youth Rights Logo Hezbollah Afghanistan Ahmad Ali Ghordarwazi N/A Afghan Shiite Minority RightsShia IslamismQutbismKhomeinism

Former parties The following is a list of historical parties disestablished prior to the founding of the Islamic Republic. 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 Logo Notes National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan RepublicanismSecularism 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 CommunismMarxist-LeninismSecularismLeft-Wing Nationalism 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) Socialism Shola-e Javid CommunismMarxism–LeninismMaoismAnti-Revisionism Banned in 1969 for opposing the Shah regime.

See also List of political parties by country

References

External links د افغانستان متحد ملت ګوند Afghanistan United Nation Party Website Licensed political parties (from the Afghanistan Ministry of Justice) Leftist parties of Afghanistan Crisis Group Asia Briefing N°39, Political Parties in Afghanistan, 5 June 2005 Afghanistan Analysts Network series on Afghan political parties (begun in 2012) Political Parties in Afghanistan United States Institute of Peace

List of political parties in Afghanistan

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