Afghanistan

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This article lists political parties in Afghanistan. [[Image:Loya_Jirga_2002. ... Afghanistan has only intermittently been a republic - between 1973-1992 and from 2001 onwards - at other times being governed by a variety of kings, emirs and (under the mujahideen and Taliban regimes in the 1990s) Islamist rulers. ... The Vice President of Afghanistan is the second highest political position obtainable in Afghanistan. ... The Cabinet of Ministers of Afghanistan is made of the heads of all the government ministries. ... The National Assembly is Afghanistans national legislature. ... The House of Elders, also natively known as the Meshrano Jirga is the upper house of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, alongside the Wolesi Jirga (peoples assembly or lower house, the main legislature). ... The House of the People, also known natively as the Wolesi Jirga (from Pashto ulus = tribe and jirga = tent) is the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, alongside the House of Elders. ... This article gives information on election and election results in Afghanistan. ... Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat: Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamiyan Daikondi - established March 28, 2004 Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghowr Helmand Herat Jowzjan Kabul Kandahar Kapisa Khost Konar Kondoz Laghman Lowgar Nangarhar Nimruz Nurestan Oruzgan Paktia Paktika Panjshir - established April 13, 2004 Parvan Samangan Sar-e Pol Takhar Vardak... After the provinces districts are the second level of administrative subdivisions in Afghanistan. ... This is a table of the current governors of Afghanistan. ... The Afghan Supreme Court (Stera Mahkama) is the court of last resort in Afghanistan. ... Chief Justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Afghan Supreme Court. ... Human Rights in Afghanistan The Bonn Agreement of 2001 established the Independent Afghan Human Rights Commission to investigate human rights abuses and war crimes. ... The foreign relations of Afghanistan, like those of any country, have changed along with the political, sociological, and economic state of the various parts of Afghanistan. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ...

Afghanistan has a multi-party system in development, with numerous 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. A multi-party system is a type of party system. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...

The parties

Major Parties

• Islamic Society of Afghanistan (Jamiat-e-Islami)
• Islamic United Party of Afghanistan (Hezeb Wahdat Islami Afghanistan )
• Islamic Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan)
• National Congress Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Congra-e-Mili Afghanistan)
• National Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Nuhzhat-e-Mili Afghanistan)
• National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Jumbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan)
• United National Front
• Esteqlal Party of Afghanistan[1] (Hezbe Esteqlale Afghanistan)

Jamiat-e Islami, is an Islamic political party in Afghanistan along the line of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. ... Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan. ... The Islamic Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan) is a political party in Afghanistan. ... The National Congress Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Congra-e-Mili Afghanistan) is a political party in Afghanistan. ... Bold text The National Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Nuhzhat-e-Mili Afghanistan) is a political party in Afghanistan. ... The National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Jumbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan ) is a political party in Afghanistan. ... The United National Front is a political party in Afghanistan which was founded on 3 April 2007 as a broad coalition of former and current strongmen, commanders from the anti-Soviet resistance, ex-Communist leaders, and various social and ethnic groups. ...

Minor parties

• Afghan Social Democratic Party
• Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
• Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan
• Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
• Social Nationalist Afghan Party
• Khalid Amin Shinwary and Fawad Habib Local Political Party
• Afghanistan Liberation Organisation

The Afghan Social Democratic Party is a political party in Afghanistan. ... The Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan (حزب كمونيست (مائوئيست) افغانستان), previously known as Communist Party of Afghanistan is an underground political party in Afghanistan. ... The Democratic Watan Party is a political party in Afghanistan. ... The Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan. ... Logo of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (جمعیت انقلابی زنان افغانستان) is a womens organization in Afghanistan that promotes womens rights and secular democracy. ... ALO logo Afghanistan Liberation Organization (Persian: , Sazman-i Rihayi Afghanistan, ALO) is a Maoist political group in Afghanistan. ...

Former parties

• People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan (in Persian: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان, in Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند, PDPA) was a Soviet-aligned Revisionist party that ruled Afghanistan from 1978 to 1991 with the help of 12000 Russian troops. ...

External links

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

See also

• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name

v • d • e Political parties in Afghanistan
Present major parties	Jamiat-e Islami - United National Front - Hezbe Wahdat - Hezbi Islami/Islamic Party of Afghanistan - National Congress Party of Afghanistan - National Movement of Afghanistan - National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
Present minor parties	Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan - Afghan Mellat - Khalid Amin Shinwary and Fawad Habib Local Political Party
Banned parties	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan - Taliban - Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan - Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan - Afghanistan Liberation Organization