The plain National front (in Pashto Shuray-e Mottahed-e Melli ) is a Political party of Afghanistan, founded the November 2nd 2006, by a vast coalition the old ones and current strong men of the country, commanders of Afghan resistance against the Soviet , former Communist leaders and of various social and ethnic groups. Its chief is old the President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani. Many of its members formed part of the plain Islamic front formerly - with the name close to that of the new party - (better known under the name of Alliance of North), of which the person in charge of the military branches was the commander Ahmed Chah Massoud.

According to a statement made to the journalists the March 13rd 2007, at the time of the presentation to the press of the program of the new party by its spokesperson, the former minister Commercial of the temporary government Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, the objectives by the various personalities which decided to link their efforts “is to fill the vacuum by the creation of a powerful political party, extremely and having broad sat. ”

Gathering several antagonistic currents on the plans policy (moudjahiddines, former Communists and royalists), ethnic (Pachtounes /non pachtounes) and monk (Shiite S Sunnite S), this coalition of lords of the war seems to be the political grouping most significant appeared in Afghanistan since the inversion of the Taliban in 2001. It lies within the scope of the process of establishment of a democratic regime which the international community calls of its wishes following the agreements of Bonn of the December 5th 2001.

The plain National front shows the characteristic to be multi-ethnic, and it is perhaps the reason for which it was fixed like objective to guarantee the unit in a divided country. It wishes a reform of the Constitution adopted in 2004, to make it possible the political parties to play a more important part at the time of the elections. He claims for that a modification of the current electoral system, to pass from a uninominal system to a list system and calls his wishes the election of the governors of province to the Universal direct suffrage. Certain observers established a bond between the creation of the Face and the request for investigation on the War crimes made during the Afghan civil war.

One finds, among the members of the plain National front Mustafa Zaher (the grandson of the former king Mohammed Zaher Chah), the former minister for defense Mohammed Qasim Fahim, the announcer of the Parliament Younous Qanouni, the vice-president of the government Ahmed Zia Massoud (the young brother of the commander Ahmed Chah Massoud), the former general Abdul Rachid Dostom, the former generals of the communist period, Sayyed Mohammed Gulabzoy and Nur ul-Haq Olumi, and of the commanders of the Hezb-i-Islami of the ex-first minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, following the example Qazi Mohammed Amin Waqad . The exact size of the Face is not known, but its leaders affirm being supported by 40% of the Afghan Parliament.

The spokesperson of the party Sayed Mustafa Kazemi was assassinated, in company of five other members of Parliament, Tuesday November 6th 2007, in a Attack-suicide perpetrated in the relatively peaceful small town of Baghlân, near Pol-e Khomri, in the North-East of the Afghanistan.

External bonds

• '' Afghan warlords form political party '' published on March 15th, 2007 on the site '' Zeenews.com ''