List of political parties in Afghanistan

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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 parties

Major parties

English name	Original name	Ideology	Notes
Islamic Party	Hezb-e Islami	Islamic Party
Republic Party of Afghanistan	Hezbi Jumhori Afghanistan	Republicanism
Islamic Society	Jamiat-e Islami	Islamic party
Islamic Movement of Afghanistan	Harakat-e Islami-yi	Islamic party
Afghan Social Democratic Party	Afghan Mellat	Social democracy
Islamic United Party of Afghanistan	Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan	Islamic party
Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan	Ittehad-I Islami Bara-yi Azadi Afghanistan	Islamic party
National Rescue Front	hezb jabha nijat mili	Islamic party

Minor parties

• Afghanistan Welfare's Party (Hizb-e-Refah e Afghanistan)
• Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Haqiqat e Afghan Association (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)
• Pashtoons Social Democratic Party (De Pashtano Tolaneez Wolaswaleez Gwand)
• People's Islamist Movement (Harakat-e Islami-yi)
• People's Party of Afghanistan
• Unit Party
• Youth Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Hambastagee Mili Jawanan)

Former 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 Taliban's coup in 1996.

English name	Ideology	Notes
Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan	Communism, marxism-leninism
National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan	Right-Centralism
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan	Communism, marxism-leninism
Shalleh-ye Javiyd	Communism, Maoism	Banned in 1969 for opposing the Shah regime.

Current banned parties

English name	Ideology	Notes
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan[citation needed]	Communism, maoism	Banned for opposing the occupation of Afghanistan.
Taliban	Islamism	Banned because of extremist islamist policy. The party is known for their support of al-Qaida, which was a primary reason they were ousted.

External links

• Licensed political parties (from the Afghanistan Ministry of Justice)
• Leftist parties of Afghanistan

See also

• List of political parties by country
• Politics of Afghanistan