Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

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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
  • Tahir 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).

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).