At the time of its foundation, the Central Committee consisted of:

• Permanent members

• • Nur Mohammed Taraki
  • Babrak Karmal
  • Sultan Ali Keshtmand
  • Saleh Mohamed Zéri
  • Gholam Destaguir Panjsheri
  • Mohamed Taher Badakhshi
  • Charoullah Chapour

• Non-permanent members

• • Nur Mohamed Nur
  • Dr. Akbar Chah-Wali
  • Abdoul Karil Missaq
  • Suleiman Laeq
  • Mohamed Hassan Bareq Chafeï
  • Hafizullah Amin
  • Ismaïl Danesh
  • Abdul Hakim Charayi Jowzjani
  • Abdul Majid
  • Zaher Ofoq Qandahari
  • Dr. Zaher

he PDPA held its First Congress on January 1, 1965. Twenty-seven men gathered at Taraki’s house in Kabul, elected Taraki PDPA Secretary General and Karmal Deputy Secretary General, and chose a five-member Central Committee (or Politburo). Nur Muhammad Taraki (1913? - 1979) was an Afghan political figure amateur poet, and publicly-notorious revolutionary. ... Babrak Karmal (January 6, 1929 - December 3, 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1980 - 1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. ... Sultan Ali Keshtmand (born 1935) was an Afghan communist politician. ... Hafizullah Amin (August 1, 1929 - December 27, 1979) was the second President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. ... Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Arabic: خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, and other ways) (March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965 – present) was an important figure in Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda organization, where he masterminded numerous plans and came to head the group...

By 1984, eight of the thirteen members and alternate members of the Politburo were Parchamis:

• • Karmal Babrak,
  • Sultan Ali Kishtmand,
  • Najibullah,
  • Nur Ahmad Nur,
  • Muhammad Rafi,
  • Anahita Ratebzad,

Abdul Qadir, and Mahmud Baryalai (Karmal's brother). Muhammad Aslam Watanjar, Salih Muhammad Zeary, Muhammad Ismail Danesh, and G hulam Dastagir Panjsheri, were Khalqists (the affiliation of an alternate member, Abdul Zahoor Razmjo, is unclear).