Preface
Recently, Jamiat-e Islami Party divided into two. The split in the old party has, once again, raised a series of questions over the nature, structure, condition, and future of parties in Afghanistan. Prior to that, Hezb-e Islami Party, Hezbe-Wahdat-e Islami Party, Harakat-e Islami Party, and other parties have split into smaller factions. These cases illustrate that parties are moving toward the opposite direction of their natural course in Afghanistan; meaning that, they experience rift rather than strength, development and nationalization. Instead of taking them [party members] or the parties to power, or making them an opposition outside the government, this job creates them more headaches and makes them spend the energy, which was supposed to be used for bringing reforms, on each other’s destruction and relegation.