Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War, he published the first issue of which faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, newspaper?
Nur Muhammad Taraki Nur Muhammad Taraki (15 July 1917 – 8 or 9 October 1979) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War. Taraki was born near Kabul and educated at Kabul University, after which he started his political career as a journalist. He later became one of the founding members of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and was elected as the party's general secretary at its first congress. He ran as a candidate in the 1965 Afghan parliamentary election but failed to secure himself a seat. In 1966 he published the first issue of "Khalq", a party newspaper, but it was closed down shortly afterwards by the Afghan Government. The assassination of Mir Akbar Khyber led Taraki, along with Hafizullah Amin (the organiser of the revolution) and Babrak Karmal, to initiate the Saur Revolution and establish the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
National Front (Afghanistan) The National Front (NF) formerly known as the "National Fatherland Front (NFF)" was an umbrella organization to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan which ruled Afghanistan from 1978-1990. NFF was established to recruit more supporters for the communist regime in Afghanistan. Between Babrak Karmal's rise as president in 1980 to 1982 much governmental propaganda was released for the support of the organization. By April, 1984 the "New Times" (Kabul) claimed that the NFF had over 55,000 members.