- the
Party in 1965
following ideological splits in the PDPA.
While the
Parchamites stressed the need for
swift social-economic
reforms to
achieve revolution...
-
faction was
answerable to Amin, the
Parchamites were
answerable to
Karmal and the
military officers (who were
Parchamites) were
answerable to Watanjar. The...
-
split along factional lines in 1967,
between Khalqists led by Nur and
Parchamites led by
Babrak Karmal, Amin
joined the Khalqists. As a
member of parliament...
- seat in the 1969
parliamentary election.
Under Karmal's leadership, the
Parchamite PDPA parti****ted in
Mohammad Daoud Khan's rise to
power in 1973, and...
-
Parchamite members being sent into de
facto exile by
being ****igned to
serve overseas as amb****adors, and
later started jailing domestic Parchamites....
-
Colonel General Abdul Kadir Dagarwal (Russian: Абдул Кадыр; Dari/Pashto: عبد القادر دگروال; 1944 –
April 22, 2014) was an
Afghan military officer and politician...
- Amin, who
undermined Taraki despite being a
fellow Khalqist,
purged Parchamites from the
party and
began ruthlessly cracking down on
political opposition...
- has been
claimed that the
shooters were not
security forces but
armed Parchamite youth.
Students of
Soriya Senior High School, a girls' school, organized...
-
instead a
republic with
himself as president. The role of pro-communist
Parchamite officers in the coup led to him
receiving the
nickname "Red Prince" by...
- in protest. Together, they
launched a coup
attempt in 1990 to oust the
Parchamite Mohammed Najibullah, but failed. A
number of Shia
militia groups also...
