Afrasiab Khattak - Communism

Communism

Afrasiab Khattak joined the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) during 1960s and by some accounts became its Secretary General. However, Khattak later allied himself with left-wing Awami National Party and campaign during the 1977 parliamentary elections. However, after General Zia-ul-Haq authorized the purge to curbed down the communist-socialist mass, Khattak took refuge in Soviet Union and later returned to Afghanistan as top Russian adviser to Afghan government.

Afrasiab Khattak lived in self-exile in Kabul from August 1980 to January 1989. He never had any formal responsibility in Afghanistan and lived there along with other Pakistani opposition politicians like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s sons, Ajmal Khattak, Khair Bakhsh Marri, and thousands of Baloch dissidents. Afrasiab had a very close personal relationship with Dr. Najibullah dating back to early 1980s. When Dr. Najeeb was brutally murdered by hidden hands in his connivance in September 1996, Afrasaib along with other progressive and nationalist politicians, foxily organized protest demonstrations in Peshawar for three days.

In 1990 Khattak formed the Quami Inquilabi Party (National Revolutionary Party), a Marxist party, after parting ways with the ANP of Abdul Wali Khan in 1989, he subsequently merged his group to form the Pakhtunkhwa Qaumi Party along with AbdulLatif Afridi and Afzal Khan Lala.