Editing Mohammad Najibullah (section)

==Legacy==
After Najibullah's death, the brutal civil war between mujahideen factions, the Taliban regime, continued fighting, and enduring problems with corruption and poverty, his image among the Afghan people dramatically improved, and Najibullah came to be seen as a strong and patriotic leader. Since the 2010s, posters and pictures of him have become a common sight in many Afghan cities.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/ideology-and-electricity-soviet-experience-afghanistan/|magazine=The Nation|title=Ideology and Electricity: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan|first=Christian|last=Parenti|date=17 April 2012|via=www.thenation.com|access-date=12 January 2018|archive-date=11 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911193006/https://www.thenation.com/article/ideology-and-electricity-soviet-experience-afghanistan/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thepashtuntimes.com/shift-dr-najibullahs-corpse-to-kabul-paktia-residents/|title=Shift Dr. Najibullah's corpse to Kabul: Paktia residents – The Pashtun Times|date=30 August 2016}}</ref> Najibullah is a very popular figure amongst [[Pashtun nationalism|Pashtun Nationalists]] many of whom view his fall as the biggest blow to the Pashtun Nationalist Movement.<ref name="dailytimes.com.pk"/> Ever since the creation of Pakistan the various governments of Afghanistan whatever Monarchy, Republican or Communist had all backed Pashtun Nationalist parties such as [[Awami National Party|ANP]]. The fall of Najibullah was considered by [[Afghan Mellat Party|Afghan Mellat]] Wakman faction leader [[Anwar ul-Haq Ahady]] as "the end of Pashtun dominance in Afghan politics".<ref name="Khan 2013 25–27">{{Cite journal |last=Khan |first=Iqbal Ahmed |date=2013 |title=The Confused Pashtun |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23527943 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=48 |issue=31 |pages=25–27 |jstor=23527943 |issn=0012-9976}}</ref><ref name=memri>{{Cite web |title=WARNING – GRAPHIC: Anti-Taliban Pashtun Nationalists And Democrats Mark Afghan Taliban's Hanging Of Former President Dr. Najibullah In 1996 – The Afghan Taliban Had Threatened To Execute President Ashraf Ghani |url=https://www.memri.org/reports/warning-%E2%80%93-graphic-anti-taliban-pashtun-nationalists-and-democrats-mark-afghan-talibans |access-date=20 September 2023 |website=MEMRI |language=en}}</ref> Many Pashtuns remember under Najibullah, [[Pashto]] became the 4th language spoken in space when [[Abdul Ahad Momand]] called Najibullah in 1988 from space as well as the fact Najibullah chose to speak Pashto at the UN General assembly rather than [[Dari]].{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 1997, the [[Watan Party of Afghanistan]] was formed and in 2003, the [[National United Party of Afghanistan]] was registered – who seek to unite former [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan|PDPA]] members formerly led by Mohammad Najibullah.<ref>[http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=1295&task=view&total=2837&start=1871&Itemid=2 Afghan Biographies – Olumi, Noorulhaq Noor ul Haq Olomi Ulumi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023212709/http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=1295&task=view&total=2837&start=1871&Itemid=2 |date=23 October 2014 }}</ref>