Watan Party of Afghanistan

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Watan Party of Afghanistan

Leader	Meer AFghan Bawary
Founded	June 28, 1997
Preceded by	PDPA/Parcham
Ideology	Secularism Progressivism Social democracy Democratic socialism National reconciliation
Political position	Left-wing to Centre-left
Website
hezbe-watan.com

The Watan Party of Afghanistan (Persian: حزب وطن افغانستان‎‎) is an Afghan political party. It was founded in exile during the time of the Taliban regime on 28 June 1997 in Munich, Germany, and has members inside the country where it is not officially registered. It considers itself a continuation of the post-communist, Islamic socialist, democratic socialist and neomarxist Democratic Watan Party of Najibullah, which was established in 1990 as a renamed incarnation of the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). The Munich conference elected Muhammad Isa Jassur as the leader of the party. The party held its second congress in Frankfurt/Main in 2000.^[1]

References

↑ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20130524194344/http://www.kas.de/db_files/dokumente/7_dokument_dok_pdf_9674_2.pdf

Political parties in Afghanistan

Present major parties	National Front of Afghanistan National Coalition of Afghanistan (Coalition for Change and Hope) Basej-e Milli (Afghanistan Green Trend) Truth and Justice Party Afghan Mellat Jamiat-e Islami Hezb-e Islami Junbish-e Milli Hezb-e Wahdat (People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan, National Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan ) Ittehad-i Islami Peace Movement of Afghanistan

Present minor parties	New Afghanistan Party Democratic Party of Afghanistan National Congress Party of Afghanistan National Islamic Front of Afghanistan National Movement of Afghanistan National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan National United Party of Afghanistan Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan Pashtoons Social Democratic Party Progressive Democratic Party of Afghanistan Solidarity Party of Afghanistan

Banned/Former parties	Afghanistan Liberation Organization Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan Khuddamul Furqan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Progressive Youth Organization Shalleh-ye Javiyd Taliban Watan Party of Afghanistan

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