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Political parties are banned inAfghanistan under the currentTaliban government. Previously, theIslamic Republic of Afghanistan had amulti-party system in development with numerouspolitical parties, in which no one party often had a chance of gaining power alone, and parties had to work with each other to formcoalition governments. No political party was permitted to exist that advocated anything deemed to go againstIslamic morality.
The Taliban movementtook over the government by force in 2021, and has since ruled the country unopposed. In September 2022, Acting Deputy Minister of JusticeMaulvi Abdul Karim stated that there is "no need" for political parties to be active.[1] On 16 August 2023, the Taliban government formally banned all political parties in Afghanistan in a decree announced by Acting Justice MinisterAbdul 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.[2]
All parties are now banned; the following is a list of major parties during the rule of theIslamic 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).[3]
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 includeMohammed Daoud Khan's National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan, thePeople's Democratic Party and theDemocratic Watan Party of Afghanistan from thecommunist era, and theNorthern Alliance that took power after theFall of Kabul in April 1992, and ran the country until theTaliban's coup in 1996.
| English name | Ideology | Logo | Notes |
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| National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan | Republicanism Secularism | Party founded by first presidentMohammad Daoud Khan. Only legal party under his rule. Ceased to exist after abloody military coup by the communists in 1978. | |
| People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan | Communism Marxist-Leninism Secularism Left-Wing Nationalism |  | Communist party founded in 1965. Gained power in a 1978 coup, and was thedominant party of theDemocratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1990. Replaced by theDemocratic Watan Party in 1990. |
| People's Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan (Feda'ian) | Socialism | ||
| Shola-e Javid | Communism Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-Revisionism | Banned in 1969 for opposing theShah regime. |
