In 2005, he ranked seventh among candidates from Kabul province, quickly rising to one of the most prominent and active representatives at the Wolesi Jirga.

He was born into a politically active family; his father Haji Saleh Mohammad Khan was one of the elders of Hazaras and served as a Member of Parliament during Dawood Shah's reign.

Abbas Noyan became politically active while still in high school, fighting against systematic discrimination of minority groups and for a responsive and accountable government for all.

For his peaceful political protests, he was briefly imprisoned, suspended from school, and dispatched to serve his mandatory military service in the Asmar district of Kunar province, one of the most dangerous parts of the country.

To suppress the population, the communist regime of Hafizullah Amin decreed the elimination and execution of any person with influence and prominence and who fought for the human and political rights of the people.