Not to be confused with Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen.
Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan
Leader
Karim Khalili
Founder
Abdul Ali Mazari
Founded
1989
Preceded by
Tehran Eight
Headquarters
Kabul, Afghanistan
Ideology
Hazara minority rights Shia Islamism
Anti-Communism
Colors
Black, red and green
Party flag
Website
[1]
Politics of Afghanistan
Political parties
Elections
Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (Dari: حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to Hezbe Wahdat (حزب وحدت, "the Unity Party"), is an Afghan political party founded in 1989. Like most contemporary major political parties in Afghanistan, Hezb-e Wahdat is rooted in the turbulent period of the anti-Soviet resistance movements in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It was formed to bring together nine separate and mostly inimical military and ideological groups into a single entity.
During the period of the Afghan Civil War in the early 1990s, it emerged as one of the major actors in Kabul and some other parts of the country. Political Islamism was the ideology of most of its key leaders, but the party gradually tilted towards its Hazara ethnic support base and became the key vehicle of the community's political demands and aspirations. Its ideological background and ethnic support base has continuously shaped its character and political agenda. Through the anti-Soviet jihad and the civil war, Hezb-e Wahdat accumulated significant political capital among Afghanistan's Hazaras.
By 2009, however, Hezb-e Wahdat was so fragmented and divided that the political weight it carried in the country bore little resemblance to what it had once been. It had fragmented into at least four competing organizations, each claiming ownership of the name and legacy of Hezb-e Wahdat.[1]
^Ibrahimi, Niamatullah. 2009. "The Dissipation of Political Capital among Afghanistan’s Hazaras: 2001-2009", Crisis States Working Papers (Working Paper no.51) page 1, London: Crisis States Research Centre, LSE Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (Dari: حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to HezbeWahdat (حزب وحدت, "the...
in Afghanistan led by Ustad Muhammad Akbari. Akbari broke away from HezbeWahdat when he struck an agreement with the Taliban, offering him a degree of...
1946 – 13 March 1995) was an ethnic Hazara politician and leader of the HezbeWahdat during and following the Soviet–Afghan War, who advocated for a federal...
the Taliban. Karim Khalili, another Hazara politician and leader of HezbeWahdat, criticized the Taliban for their treatment of the Balkhab civilians...
transitional period. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, HezbeWahdat, and Ittihad-i Islami did not participate. The state was paralysed from...
paramilitary forces against Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezbe Islami and Abdul Ali Mazari's HezbeWahdat militias in the densely populated, Qizilbash-majority...
neighboring Afghanistan, including assistance for Abdul Ali Mazari's Shi'a HezbeWahdat in the 1980s against the government of Mohammad Najibullah. It then began...
various positions at the time of jihad with the HezbeWahdat Party of Afghanistan. "Ghulam Ali Wahdat, Bamyan governor | Pajhwok Afghan News". www.pajhwok...
Shaykh Sayeed Abdul Jaffar Nadiri, Muhammad Hazai Sayeed Ismail Balkhee. HezbeWahdat Ruttig, T. Islamists, Leftists – and a Void in the Center. Afghanistan's...
2004, Danish became Justice Minister and renounced his membership to HezbeWahdat as per Constitutional law. Under President Ashraf Ghani, Danish served...
the Hazara ethnic group. His father, Morad Mujahid, was a member of HezbeWahdat and he fought in the Soviet–Afghan War, which was when Morad began using...
during parades. Soon, he would become one of the senior commanders of HezbeWahdat. Shafi formed the “Brigade Two” infantry unit. It was not long before...
(Harakat-e Shamal) and ally with the Tajik Jamiat-e Islami and Hazara HezbeWahdat in taking on the mostly Pashtun, Afghan Military. Many Tajik Parchamites...
ruled the Hazarajat from 1979 to 1982 followed by Sazman-i Nasr then HezbeWahdat that ruled Hazarajat until 1997. During this time, Hazarajat was more...
Soviet Union in 1989, Mohaqiq was appointed as the leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat for northern Afghanistan. Muhammad Mohaqiq son of Sarwar, was born in 1955...
studies at the University of Qom in Qom, Iran. Balkhabi is a member of HezbeWahdat party. "سید محمدحسن شریفی بلخابی". www.wolesi.website. Retrieved 2018-09-01...
Yakawlang was captured from the Taliban by the United Front forces (HezbeWahdat and Harakat Islami) on 28 December 2000, but was recaptured by the Taliban...
خلیلی; born 1950) is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party. Most recently he was Chief of the Afghan High...
1996 between Government forces and militia of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Hezbewahdat to control the capital, Along with Gul Haidar he took 3-month rotations...
the victory of the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif, the Hazara soldiers of HezbeWahdat were motivated to lift off the siege of their homeland. Under the command...
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