Democracy without the presence of functioning political parties to compete in elections and elect their representatives to parliament and other elected bodies is abortive. Though Afghan government and international community are no longer attentive of democratic politics and development, and are mainly concentrating on how to end the war with Taliban and other main insurgent groups, there is still an opportunity to begin to campaign for providing legal context for political parties to play their role in moving the democratic processes forward.

Afghanistan has been through a monolithic authoritarianism throughout its chequered history, due in large part to absence of major political parties that could develop alternative policies and programs; inform people about their right to stand against repression; and thus hold the governments accountable.

In post-Taliban, individual-based politics remained the prevailing and predominant pattern espoused and moved forward by president Karzai and international community that saw him as the only man to be a democratic savior of Afghanistan.

But, if the situation is not reversed, he not only will not be written down as a savior but also as destroyer. There is no equal protection to the citizens. Democratic institutions are changing for the worse. In absence of enfranchised political parties to be able to hold the parliament, one should be naïve enough to expect a functioning parliament.

Over the last ten years, it continued to be the argument against allowing party politics to be formed that favorable circumstances are yet to be created to move away from individual politics. This has been a completely treacherous fallacy that has led to de-democratization- reversal of democratic processes in the country.

Individual-based politics is more prone to de-democratization as we see it today here in Afghanistan. When a parliament is not operating properly to do its functions of: 1) legislating, 2) holding the government accountable, and 3) representing the people, a president with power centralized in its hands can easily traverse a trajectory of non-democratic nature.

Political parties can play an important role in creation of citizenship – rights and obligations linking whole categoriesof a regime's subject population to governmental agents – which is a necessary condition of democratization. Today, we see passive and uninformed citizens, a corrupt government-executive- and dysfunctional parliament.

Individual MPs arefollowing individual interests and cannot come to an agreement so easily. There individual interests could change as easily as a dinner served in their honor. The ongoing debacles inside Wolesi Jirga of the country with regard to electing its administrative board; and the rampant corruption in the government, which has brought it down to the second in the corruption ranking in the world are clear proofs to substantiate this obvious and self-evident premise that a democracy without political parties is abortive and could easily transform into de-democratization.