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The Kurdistan Freedom Party (Partiya Azadiya Kurdistan, PAK) is a Kurdish political party founded in 2006 by Ali Qazi, the son of Qazi Muhammad. The party is a liberal and nationalist party. The party seeks the secession of the four parts of Kurdistan to establish an independent Kurdish state. It represent a liberal and modernist political line, centering its political views on freedom and equality in all fields.

The party is currently engaged in the fight against ISIL, with the aim of defending Kurdish territory. The party is now currently located in the outskirts of Mosul and Kirkuk. Deputy leader Husseyn Yezdanpenna is leading the armed wing of the party. The party has lost 4 members of its armed wing in the fight against ISIL. The first female Peshmerga of the party to be killed was Nigar Hosseini, a 20 year old Kurdish woman, who lost her life, during a mortar attack on the sixth of September near Kirkuk.

The party has an active armed wing of 1000 men and women as of 2015.

The party made headlines, when a fighter of the party, went into an explosion and survived the blast.

History
The party was founded in 2006. It is the successor of the Revolutionist Union of Kurdistan, which was founded in 1991 under the leadership of Huseyn Yezdanpenna. In its first congress, it was renamed to PAK and Ali Qazi was elected to lead the party. PAK is based in Erbil, in the Kurdish region of Iraq, in the village of Serbiran, next to the Erbil International Airport. The party has historically been active in the eastern parts of Kurdistan, although it is currently based in the southern parts of Kurdistan.

The party has since its foundation built strong relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2014, it was asked by the KRG to support the defense of southern Kurdistan against the ISIL August offensive.

Ideology
The PAK can be viewed as a secular and liberal minded movement, uniting both leftist and conservative values under the banner of a strong sense of Kurdish nationalism. It has a high emphasis on gender equality, political decentralization as well as personal freedom.


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The party believes in free entrepreneurship as a mean to strenghten the kurdish economy and wants to allow a laissez faire policy to take roots in kurdistan. It is therefore supporting the KRG policy to establish and independent and private oil industry and views the state-entrepreneur cooperation as the best way to develop kurdistan. The PAK hopes to reform the kurdish education system wth a strong belief on a trial education system, activly involving the companies in the traning of the youth combined with the establishment of cross sector education centers. The PAK hopes to strenghten legal certainty to provide a better life for all kurds based on the idea of good governance and easing the lifes of the kurds. Its key idea is to set up a sovereign wealth fund that will strenghten the local economy, it is currently working on a grow strategy for the kurdish economy involving interest free financial support for young locals to etstablish their own businesses."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_organisations (adding PAK to these pages)

Link to Ali Qazi's page also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qazi_Muhammad