Republican Party of Afghanistan ( fa, حزب جمهوریخواهان افغانستان, ''Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan-e Afghanistan'') is a

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Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. When the party was founded in 1999, it declared the

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as the programme of the party. Sebghatullah Sanjar was elected as the chairman of the party. The party established liaisons with the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan office in Kabul, and was invited to the 2001

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conference; Zai Waziri, the founder and its first leader participated the Bonn Conference. However, a shift in the UNSMA office resulted in the group being degraded to observers at the conference. Along with other democratic sections that had been invited to the Bonn conference, the party took part in founding the Council of Defenders of Peace and Democracy in the spring of 2002, just weeks before the opening of the Emergency Loya Jirga. In late 2002, the leadership of the party was passed over to Sibghatullah Sanjar, after an election within the party ranks. The party headquarters is located in Qae Fathollah, a district of

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. During the

constitutional Loya jirga Afghan leaders who met at the December 2001 Bonn Conference which picked Hamid Karzai to lead the Afghan Transitional Authority Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or ...

of 2003, the Party announced its support for a presidential system in the future

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. The Party also expressed its support for free

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and health care. As of 2003, the party claimed to have 35 000 members across the country. On 6 March 2004, it became the first political party to register at the Ministry of Justice under the new system. On October 1, 2005 it took part in founding the Advisory Commission of National and Democratic Parties (AC-NDP), a broad coalition of factions opposed to '

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ism'. However it soon withdrew from the new structure. The party headquarters is located in Qae Fathollah, a district of

. Adla Bahram is the director of women's affairs of the party and now the elected party president. The party leader, Sebghatullah Sanjar, was assassinated in Kabul on 5 May 2012.

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