The government of Mohammed Daoud Khan tried to scale back the PDPA's influence dismissing PDPA members from their government posts, appointing conservative elements instead and finally announcing the dissolution of the PDPA arresting senior party members.

National Alliance (, AN ) was a conservative political party in Italy.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

With most hardliners leaving the party, it sought to present itself as a respectable conservative party and to join forces with Forza Italia in the European People's Party and, eventually, in a united party of the centre-right.

Gianfranco Fini, a moderniser who sees Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron as models, impressed an ambitious political line to the party, combining the pillars of conservative ideology like security, family values and patriotism with a progressive approach in other areas such as stem cell research and supporting voting rights for legal aliens.

* D-Destra, led by Francesco Storace, was the most conservative component of the party, proud of the MSI's tradition and in open opposition to Fini.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

The Christian Social Union of Bavaria () is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany.

Klaus von Beyme, who developed the method of party categorization, found that no modern Eastern European parties could be considered conservative, although the communist and communist-successor parties had strong similarities.

Chile's conservative party, the National Party disbanded in 1973 following a military coup and did not re-emerge as a political force following the subsequent return to democracy.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

The conservative party in Finland is the National Coalition Party ( in Finnish Kansallinen Kokoomus, Kok ).

The main interwar conservative party was called the People's Party ( PP ), which supported constitutional monarchy and opposed the republican Liberal Party.

South Korea's major conservative party, the Saenuri Party or 새누리당, changed its form throughout its history.

The next form of the major conservative party was the Democratic-Liberal Party.

When the conservative party was beaten by the opposition party in the general election, it changed its form again to follow the party members ' demand for reforms.

Luxembourg's major conservative party, the Christian Social People's Party ( CSV or PCS ) was formed as the Party of the Right in 1914, and adopted its present name in 1945.

Sweden's conservative party, the Moderate Party, was formed in 1904, two years after the founding of the liberal party.

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali ( Balochi, ; born January 1, 1944 ) is a nationalist conservative politician and former sports administrator, serving as the thirteenth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2002 until his resignation in 2004.

In 1988, Jamali joined the right-wing conservative alliance, the Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ), and appointed as the fourth Chief Minister of Balochistan Province of Pakistan in 1988.

The Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) ( Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ ن ; acronym: PML -( N ), PMN-N, and PMLN ) is a center-right, conservative political party in Pakistan, being the largest conservative political force and second largest political party, roughly representing 19. 6 % of votes in the Parliament ( both in Senate and National Assembly ), in the latest national parliamentary elections.

It is also currently the ally of Prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf led-government, and major ally of Pakistan Peoples Party in Punjab and Balochistan provinces against its rival Pakistan Muslim League ( N ), a western conservative and centre-right force.

The religious conservative party, the MMA, the socialist party, the Awami National Party, and the liberal secular party, the MQM, joined with the " Pakistan Muslim League " to call for parliamentary democracy as it existed in 1997.

His political philosophy reflected the democratic socialism, Leghari was the first Baloch president from the Saraiki speaking Baloch people from the Punjab Province of Pakistan, and was also a senior member of the Pakistan Peoples Party until 2004 when his political differences arise with Benazir Bhutto, forcing him to ally with the centre-right conservative Pakistan Muslim League.

After dismissing, his political ideology clashes with conservative prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and his intervention to support to Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah's matter finally led the resignation of his presidency after being forced by the conservatives and persuaded by the Pakistan Armed Forces in 1997.

Nurul Amin ( English IPA :,, July 15, 1893-October 2, 1974 ), famously referred as Patriot of Pakistan, was a prominent Bengali leader, jurist, national conservative, and party chairman of the Pakistan's Muslim League — founding party of Pakistan.

Matheson has always voted conservative in regards to the wars in the Middle East ; he voted in favor of using military force against Iraq in 2003, voted against removing troops from Libya in 2011, and against removing troops from Pakistan in 2010.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ( Urdu: چودھری شجاعت حسین ; January 27, 1946 ), is a senior conservative figure and business oligarch, previously served as the 14th Prime minister of Pakistan from 30 June 2004 until voluntarily stepping down on 28 August 2004, in the favor of Shaukat Aziz.

Hussain became a wealthy leader and influential conservative figure in Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) in 1988-90 and later joining the Pakistan Muslim League ( PML ) led under Nawaz Sharif in 1993.

In 2004, Aziz was nominated by the Pakistan Muslim League, a conservative front, for the position of Prime Minister after the resignation of Zafarullah Khan Jamali on June 6, 2004.

Khurshid Ahmad is very articulate leader of JeI and has been a driving force behind the right-wing conservative politics in Pakistan.

The PML-N, the first established ruling party of Pakistan after partition under Jinnah, was split in 2002 when the incumbent government formed the PML-Q Thus, although the party was fractured, the dissent, which consisted of conservative, military loyalists, yielded a more ideologically cohesive PML-N.

According to the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation the majority of Sunni in Pakistan follows Barelvi traditions.

Many of its leaders were one-time mujahidin, but the bulk of their forces were young Afghan refugees trained in Pakistani madrassas ( religious schools ), especially those run by the Jamiat-e Ulema-e Islam Pakistan, the aggressively conservative Pakistani political religious party headed by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, arch rival of Qazi Hussain Ahmad, leader of the equally conservative Jamaat-e-Islami and longtime supporter of the mujahidin.

The more conservative Chadian Democratic Union ( UDT ) was founded in November 1947 and represented French commercial interests and a bloc of traditional leaders composed primarily of Muslim and Ouaddaïan nobility.

Manama and its inhabitants were first introduced to Islam during the 7th century and by the 9th century began to lean to a more conservative almost socialist belief system that caused considerable friction with the surrounding Muslim lands.

The Nigerian People's Congress ( NPC ) represented conservative, Muslim, largely Hausa and Fulani interests that dominated the Northern Region.

Muslim Socialists are more conservative than their western contemporaries and find their roots in Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism and Arab nationalism.

Sidon is a conservative city with a Sunni Muslim majority: Sunnis make up approximately ( 80 %) of the local population, Shiites and Christians combined make up ( 20 %).

Saddam, therefore, increasingly portrayed himself as a devout Muslim, in an effort to co-opt the conservative religious segments of society.

To achieve this, he began enacting several reforms to modernize the al-Azhar Mosque, which serves as the de facto leading authority in Sunni Islam, and ensure its prominence over the Muslim Brotherhood and the more conservative Wahhabism promoted by Saudi Arabia.

Conversely, the controversial Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, has criticised the station for an overtly " socially and culturally conservative " approach.

The passing of the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 by the Rajiv Gandhi government, under pressure from conservative Muslims, to dilute the secular judgment of the Supreme Court, was opposed by Hindutva organisations.

He was a conservative figure within the Church ; and was also respected within the Muslim community.

Judaeo-Persian dialects are generally conservative in comparison with those of their Muslim neighbours: for example, Judaeo-Shirazi remains close to the language of Hafiz.

This study may be undertaken from a conservative Muslim perspective, which often sees Judaism and Christianity as having been originally similar to Islam, and later developing away from the root monotheist religion.

In conservative Muslim countries like Iran and Malaysia, photographs featuring topless or scantily clad members of primitive tribal societies are often blacked out ; buyers and subscribers often complain that this practice decreases the artistic value of the photographs for which National Geographic is world-renowned.

In 2005, Vivienne, a virtual girlfriend created by software maker Artificial Life Inc. of Hong Kong was reprogrammed not to bare her navel or display body piercings in conservative Muslim countries like Malaysia to avoid problems.

" On April 22, 2010 after objections from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and the Muslim group Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR ), the Pentagon rescinded his invitation from the Christian conservative National Day of Prayer Task Force to speak at a Pentagon National Day of Prayer event.

" In a March 2011 interview with the conservative internet publication Newsmax, Graham claimed that Obama had " allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to become part of the US government and influence administration decisions ," asserting that:

This Cleavage between fundamentalism as revivalism and fundamentalism as revolution was deep and for a long while coincided closely with the sectarian divide between the Sunnis-the Muslim world's traditional ` haves `, concerned more with conservative religiosity-and the Shia-the longtime outsiders ,` more drawn to radical dreaming and scheming.

Many Muslim majority countries have signed international human rights treaties, but the impact of these largely remains to be seen in local legal systems-a point highlighted by the fact that most countries which impose conservative interpretations of Shariah law are amongst the most repressive countries in the world, while secular states are often the most open and tolerant

The party has its origins in the old Yugoslav Muslim Organization, which was the largest conservative Bosniak party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Dangdut remains an integral part of Indonesian life and pop culture despite conservative Muslim concerns over the supposed vulgarity of some of its performances ( such as by Julia Perez ).

The party's base of support is strongest in rural areas of Java, and draws from the constituency that formerly supported the conservative Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama.

In 2011, Grandy was on a panel at a conservative rally in Annapolis, Maryland, where he stated that the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU are supported by the Muslim Brotherhood.