A Look Into Afghan Mellat

It has been always a mystery to many, as to what kind of political ambitions the pashtoon nationalists have in their mind. Most of the time they do not identify themselves as Afghan Mellatis, but try to cover their true identities, in order to infilterate into Persian speaking society. Here is a brief history of this ruthless band of blood thirsty killers, and their pervers deals with any regime in kabul during different periods, just to keep themselves in power. For a complete indepth review please refer to wikipedia.org.




The Afghan Social Democratic Party, more commonly known as Afghan Mellat (Pashto: افغان ملت - Afğān Mellat; "Afghan Nation"), is a Pashtūn (Afghan) ultra-nationalist and self-declared social democratic political party in Afghanistan. The party was founded in March 1966 by Ghulam Mohammad Farhad, a German-educated Pashtun intellectual fascinated by some aspects of Nazi policy. Afghan Mellat looks after the interests of the Pashtun ethnic group and has its support only from them.The party favors the ideas of Pashtunization of Afghanistan and a Greater Afghanistan (i.e. it claims the Pashtun-speaking parts of Pakistan for Afghanistan). It has been called ethno fascist by its critics. Although the party describes itself as social democratic, it is not recognized as such by the Socialist International. In the 1969 parliamentary elections, Farhad was elected to the parliament. After the Saur Revolution in 1978, the party was banned. Farhad was imprisoned, but released in 1980.
In exile in Pakistan, the party operated under the auspices of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
In 1986-1987, dialogues took place between the government and the party and some leading party members were released from prison. However, the party chose to stay outside of the governing coalition. The relations with the government split the party into three factions; with one faction led by Shams-ul-Huda Shams, one by Qudratullah Hadad and the other by Mohammad Amin Wakman. It is Wakman faction that is currently led by Afghanistan's Finance Minister, Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, the son-in-law of the NIFA leader Pir Gailani.


Now comes the best part, it is actually no surprise but it should be a reminder to all Persian community, that still believe in brotherhood with Pashtoons, here it goes:

Wakman branch
In 1995 Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady took over the Wakman branch. Under his leadership, the party toned down its Pashtun nationalist profile and sought support amongst non-Pashtuns. The Wakman branch of the party is recognized by the Afghan government as the "Afghan Mellat Party".
After the fall of the Taliban government, the party leader Ahady has been included in the government as Finance Minister. The party supported Hamid Karzai in the presidential election and receives support from Karzai. The party has around 10 MPs. The party officially registered themselves in Afghanistan on May 16, 2004.