The Watan Party of Afghanistan (Dari: حزب وطن افغانستان, romanized: Hezb-e Watan-e Afganestan, lit.
[1] The party was founded in exile during the time of the Taliban regime on 28 June 1997 in Munich, Germany, and has members inside the country where it is not officially registered.
The Munich conference elected Muhammad Isa Jassur as the leader of the party.
[2] On 28 July 2017, thousands attended an event at a Kabul hotel for the fourth "consultative gathering for a legal relaunch of Watan Party".
The Party has described itself as "national and democratic, progressive and reformist" and is against foreign interference in Afghanistan, particularly from the Pakistanis.