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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
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- Nur Mohammed Taraki
- Babrak Karmal
- Sultan Ali Keshtmand
- Saleh Mohamed Zéri
- Gholam Destaguir Panjsheri
- Tahir Badakhshi
- Charoullah Chapour
- Non-permanent members
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- 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:
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- 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).