Afghan Social Democratic Party was founded on March 8, 1966, by a group of influential bureaucrats associated with the ruling elites. However, it was officially declared on March 27 of that year.
Ghulam Mohammad Farhad, a German educated Pashtun intellectual, served as the first President of the party. Farhad had studied in
Nazi Germany and was fascinated by some aspects of
Nazism. Afghan Mellat looks after the interests of the Pashtun ethnic group and has its support only from them. The party favors the ideas of
Pashtunization of Afghanistan and a
Greater Afghanistan (i.e. it claims the Pashtun-speaking parts of
Pakistan for Afghanistan). After the
Saur Revolution in 1978, the party was banned. Farhad was imprisoned, but released in 1980. In exile in
Pakistan, the party operated under the auspices of the
National Islamic Front of Afghanistan. In 1986–1987, dialogues took place between the government and the party and some leading party members were released from prison.
Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, the son-in-law of the NIFA leader Pir Gailani. ==Wakman branch==