Habib Mangal is an Afghan citizen who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.
[1] He joined the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in 1964, when he was 18 years old.
[1] The Pajhwok Afghan News profile attributed this second imprisonment to "political reasons", and to "intra-party differences".
[1] From 1987 to 1991 he represented Paktia in the Wolesi Jirga, the upper house of Afghanistan's National Legislature.
When the PDPA administration of Afghanistan fell in 1992 he traveled to the Netherlands, where he remained until 2009.