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People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan (, ''Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Mardum-e Afghanistan'') is a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
in
Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...
, formed after a split in the ''
Hezbe Wahdat Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to Hezbe Wahdat (, "the Unity Party"), is a Hazara political party founded in 1989. Like most contemporary major political parties in Afghanistan, Hezb-e ...
''. The party is led by
Mohammed Mohaqiq Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq (Hazaragi/; born 26 July 1955 in Balkh) is an Afghan politician who served as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament. He is also the founder and chairman of the People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan. During the 1980s ...
. The party was founded in 2004 after Mohaqiq resigned from his post as Minister of Planning in the Afghan government. After resigning from both his government position and
Hezbe Wahdat Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to Hezbe Wahdat (, "the Unity Party"), is a Hazara political party founded in 1989. Like most contemporary major political parties in Afghanistan, Hezb-e ...
Mohaqiq announced both the creation of the party and also his candidacy for the 2004 Presidential election. Despite having just founded the PIUPA, Mohaqiq ran as an independent candidate on a Hazara nationalist platform. Like many of the other candidates, Mohaqiq's campaign emphasized an "everyman" image, and claimed that he would fight for the people's interests. Despite Karim Khalili, the head of Hezbe Wahdat, running as vice president on President Karzai's ticket Mohaqiq, won the bulk of the Hazara vote. Mohaqiq and the party opposed the 2009 Personal Status Law, which allowed a man to refuse sustenance to his wife if she refused to have sex with him.


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List of Islamic political parties Below are lists of political parties espousing Islamic identity or political Islam in various approaches under the system of Islamic democracy. Islamic democracy refers to a political ideology that seeks to apply Islamic principles to public pol ...
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Hezbe Wahdat Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to Hezbe Wahdat (, "the Unity Party"), is a Hazara political party founded in 1989. Like most contemporary major political parties in Afghanistan, Hezb-e ...


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