Abdul Latīf Pedrām (Persian: عبداللطيف پدرام; born 29 July 1963) is a politician and a Member of Parliament in Afghanistan.

He emerged as a controversial figure in the press and political circles for campaigning for women's personal rights, a taboo subject in Afghanistan's culture.

Born in Maimay, Badakhshan on the 29th of July 1963 to a Persian-speaking Pamiri family, Latīf Pedrām is a writer, poet, journalist, and professor of Persian literature.

First a supporter of the communist government, he soon began to openly criticize and oppose the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and turned toward Ahmad Shah Masood.

[12] While expressing its concern regarding the regression of democracy in Afghanistan one year before the 2009 presidential elections, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) called for the unconditional release of Latīf Pedrām.

[4] In January 2009 an article by Aḥmad Madjidyar of the American Enterprise Institute included Pedrām on a list of fifteen possible candidates in the controversial 2009 Afghan Presidential election.

[13] Preliminary results placed Pedrām eleventh in a field of 38 candidates[14] and according to the controversial Independent Election Committee (IEC), he ultimately received 0.34% of the votes.

Tajiks constituted the main anti-Taliban fighting force in the past, known as Northern Alliance or United Islamic Front for Salvation of Afghanistan.