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At the time of its foundation, the Central Committee consisted of:

  • Permanent members



  • Non-permanent members



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).