Wesh Zalmian

Wesh Zalmian (Pashto: ويښ زلميان or Awakened Youth) was a reformist youth movement started in 1947 in Kandahar Afghanistan. The movement was focused on a nationalist agenda of modernization.^[1] Following a brief period of liberalisation encouraged by Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Khan, it was dissolved in a crackdown in 1951 and 1952. The crackdown has been described as a contributing factor in the radicalisation of many leaders who later established the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.^[2] Noor Mohammad Tarakai stated he was a founder of the movement, and Babrak Karmal and Hafizullah Amin also said they had been involved.

Awakened Youth Movement
Founded	1947 (1947)
Dissolved	1951 (1951)
Politics of Afghanistan Political parties Elections

See also

• Khalq
• PDPA
• Mir Akbar Khyber
• Shah Mahmud Khan
• Sulaiman Layeq