Babrak Karmal was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan,serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.
Hafizullah Amin was an Afghan communist head of state,who served in that position for a little over three months,from September 1979 until his assassination. He organized the Saur Revolution of 1978 and co-founded the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA),ruling Afghanistan as General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.
Mohammad Najibullah,commonly known as Dr. Najib,was an Afghan politician who served as the General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan,the leader of the one-party ruling Republic of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992 and as well as the President of Afghanistan from 1987 until his resignation in April 1992,shortly after which the mujahideen took over Kabul. After a failed attempt to flee to India,Najibullah remained in Kabul. He lived in the United Nations headquarters until his assassination during the Taliban's capture of Kabul.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA),renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987,was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. It relied heavily on assistance from the Soviet Union for most of its existence,especially during the Soviet–Afghan War.
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965. Four members of the party won seats in the 1965 Afghan parliamentary election,reduced to two seats in 1969,albeit both before the party was fully legal. For most of its existence,the party was split between the hardline Khalq and moderate Parcham factions,each of which claimed to represent the "true" PDPA.
The following lists events that happened during 1981 in Afghanistan.
Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan communist politician,journalist and writer. He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who served as its General Secretary from 1965 to 1979 and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council from 1978 to 1979.
Sultan Ali Keshtmand,sometimes transliterated Kishtmand,was an Afghan communist politician,belonging to the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). He served twice as Chairman of the Council of Ministers during the 1980s,from 1981 to 1988 and from 1989 to 1990 in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Parcham was the more moderate socialist faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) led by Afghan communist politician Babrak Karmal. It was later turned into the Watan (Homeland) Party with a more Islamic outlook under Mohammed Najibullah. The faction was formed directly after the founding of the Party in 1965 following ideological splits in the PDPA. While the Parchamites stressed the need for swift social-economic reforms to achieve revolution,this was in direct contrast with their PDPA rivals,the Khalqists,who sought an immediate and violent overthrow of the government. Karmal believed that Afghanistan was not developed enough for a Leninist revolutionary approach and instead sought a patriotic and anti-imperialist united front to take the next steps toward revolution.
Abdul Rahim Hatif was a politician in Afghanistan. He served as one of the vice presidents during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Colonel General Abdul Kadir Dagarwal was an Afghan politician,diplomat,and a military officer in the Afghan Air Force who participated in the coup d'état that created the Republic of Afghanistan under the President Dawood Khan,and later directed the Afghan Air Force and Army Air Corps squadrons that attacked the Radio-TV station during the Saur Revolution.
The following lists events that happened during 1985 in Afghanistan.
Mir Akbar Khyber was an Afghan left-wing intellectual and a leader of the Parcham faction of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). His assassination by an unidentified person or people led to the overthrow of Mohammed Daoud Khan's republic,and to the advent of a socialist regime in Afghanistan,the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
The Revolutionary Council of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ruled the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1978 until its collapse in 1992. The council was the supreme state power under the communist regime and was a carbon copy of the Supreme Soviet in the Soviet Union. The point with the council was to convene on a semiannual basis to approve decisions made by the presidium.
Settam-e-Melli was a political movement in Afghanistan,led by Tahir Badakhshi. The organization was affiliated with the Non-Aligned Movement,and was opposed by both the Afghan monarchy and by the Soviet-aligned People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Its followers were mostly Persian speakers. Most of its members were non-Pashtuns—Tajik,Uzbek,and other minorities—and it has been variously described as an anti-Pashtun separatist group and as a Tajik and Uzbek separatist group. "Information on Settam-e-Melli is vague and contradictory,but it appears to have been an anti-Pashtun leftist mutation."
Major General Sayed Muhammad Gulabzoi is an Afghan politician. An ethnic Pashtun from the Zadran tribe,Gulabzoi was born in Paktia Province. An Air Force mechanic by training,he studied at the Air Force college. As an air force officer,he supported Daoud Khan's 1973 coup d'état which overthrew King Zahir Shah,for which he was rewarded with the position of Aide to the Air Force Commander. In 1976,he went to the Soviet Union to study radar technology.
Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal is an Afghan-American politician and activist. He served as cabinet minister in Afghan governments in the 1980s.
Abdul Wahed Sarābi,is a former government minister and was one of the vice presidents of Mohammad Najibullah in Afghanistan.
Major-general Mohammed Ishaq Tokhi is a politician from Afghanistan.
Abdul Hamid Mohtat is an Afghani former politician and military officer from who served as Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister.
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