{{Other|National Front of Afghanistan}} {{Infobox organization | name = National Fatherland Front | image = Emblem_of_the_National_Fatherland_Front_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan_1981.png | caption = | map = | map_caption = | dissolved = 1992 | type = [[Umbrella organization]] | headquarters = [[Kabul]], [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] | membership_type = | num_members = 55,000 (1984) | language = | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | parent_organization = [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan|PDPA]] | formation = August 1981 | website = }} The '''National Fatherland Front''' ('''NFF'''; {{langx|prs|جبهه ملی پدر وطن}}) later known as the '''National Front''' ('''NF'''; {{langx|prs|جبهه ملی|links=no}}), was an [[umbrella organization]] to the [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan]] (PDPA) which ruled [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] from 1978 until 1992.<ref name="parcham">{{cite book|author=Ed 2002 43rd, Taylor & Francis Group |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvU9lroRuUC&q=Deputy+Prime+Minister+of+Afghanistan+in+1980&pg=PA399 |title=The Europa World Year Book 2003 |date = 10 July 2003|isbn = 9781857432275| accessdate=2009-03-23}}</ref> NFF was established to recruit more supporters for the [[Communist state|communist regime]] in Afghanistan. Between 1980<ref>{{Cite web |title=Национальный Отечественный Фронт Демократической Республики Афганистан {{!}} National Security Archive |url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/26555-document-17-nacionalnyy-otechestvennyy-front-demokraticheskoy-res |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=nsarchive.gwu.edu}}</ref> and 1982, during [[Babrak Karmal]]'s rise as president, much governmental [[Communist propaganda|propaganda]] was released for support of the organization. By April 1984, the ''New Times'' (Kabul) claimed that the NFF had over 55,000 members.<ref name="organizations">{{cite book|author=Eur, Europa Publications Staff and Europa Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUSNyMH1aFQC&q=Ghulam+Dastagir+Panjsheri&pg=PA65 |title=The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation |date = July 1994|isbn = 9780788111112| accessdate=2009-03-22}}</ref>
== Leaders (in 1984) == *Chairman of the Central Committee: Dr. Saleh Mohammad Ziarei *Vice-Chairmen of the Central Committee: Bariq Shafihi, Suleiman Laeq, Sayed Afghani, Nejmuddin Kawyani, Sayed Ekram Paygir
==References== {{Reflist}} {{DRA topics}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan]] [[Category:Popular fronts of communist states]] [[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1992]]