List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to Pakistan explained

Post:Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan
Flag:Flag of the Taliban.svg
Flagsize:125
Flagborder:yes
Flagcaption:Flag of Afghanistan
Incumbent:Sardar Ahmed Khan Shakeeb
(charge d'affaires)[1]
Department:Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style:His Excellency
Residence:Islamabad, Pakistan
Appointer:Foreign Minister[2]
Termlength:No fixed term
Formation:1947
First:Sardar Najibullah Khan

The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan is the top-level diplomatic representative of Afghanistan in Pakistan. The ambassador is in charge of the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. It is politically an important Afghan diplomatic post, due to the Afghan–Pakistani bilateral relationship.[3]

List of ambassadors

Diplomatic relations were terminated on 6 September 1961 and restored on 28 May 1963.[11]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pak allows Taliban-appointed envoys to take charge in Afghan embassies: Report. Shankhyaneel Sarkar. Hindustan Times. 13 March 2022. 14 March 2022.
  2. News: Muttaqi Meets Ismail Khan, Ahmad Massoud in Tehran . 6 April 2022 . . 10 January 2022.
  3. News: Afghanistan appoints career diplomat Alikhil as ambassador to Pakistan. Tahir. Khan. Daily Times. 30 September 2020. 4 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200922071019/https://dailytimes.com.pk/662612/afghanistan-appoints-career-diplomat-alikhil-as-ambassador-to-pakistan/. 22 September 2020. live.
  4. Web site: Quaid-i-Azam and Pakistan's Relations with Neighbouring Countries. Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust. Iqtidar Karamat. Cheema. 1 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200224104306/http://nazariapak.info/Quaid-e-Azam/Relations-neigh.php. 24 February 2020. live.
  5. Book: A.Z. Hilali. US-Pakistan Relationship: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. 5 July 2017. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-87623-0. 45–. In November 1947 the Afghan envoy in Pakistan demanded of the new state that Pakhtun tribal areas must form a 'free, sovereign province', and Afghanistan must be given access to the sea through the provision of either 'an Afghan corridor in west Baluchistan' or a free Afghan zone in Karachi. In early 1948, Kabul's envoy, Sardar Najibullah Khan, met the Governor General of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam), who listened to his demands politely and made it clear to the Afghan envoy that the boundary would not be readjusted..
  6. Book: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan, October 1947-December 1948. 2000. 978-1-55655-768-2. 180–. Best . Antony .
  7. Book: Verinder Grover. Ranjana Arora. Political System in Pakistan: Pakistan's relations with the Muslim world. 1995. Deep & Deep. 978-81-7100-741-7. 377. Marshal Shah Wali Khan, uncle of King Zahir Shah and a former Prime Minister of Afghanistan, was appointed as the first Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan..
  8. News: Afghanistan and Pakistan's oft-ignored history – 1947-1978. Arwin. Rahi. The Express Tribune. 10 September 2020. 4 October 2020. Afghanistan and Pakistan held initial negotiations in Karachi in November 1947, and exchanged ambassadors in February 1948.. https://web.archive.org/web/20201009012844/https://tribune.com.pk/article/97165/afghanistan-and-pakistans-oft-ignored-history-1947-1978. 9 October 2020. live.
  9. Book: Foreign Affairs Reports. 1952. 85. Afghanistan appointed Sardar Atiq Khan Rafiq as Ambassador in Karachi, a post that had been lying vacant ever since June 1949..
  10. Book: Collier's ... Year Book Covering the Year .... 1956. P.F. Collier & Son.. 8. A series of minor incidents followed, even though on April 1 Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Sardar Atiq Khan, apologized for the attack..
  11. Book: Europa Publications. A Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia. 2 September 2003. Routledge. 978-1-135-35680-4. 3–.
  12. Book: Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan. June 1963. Pakistan Herald Publications.. 14–. The occasion was the presentation of the credentials by the Afghan Ambassador, Mr. Muhammad Hashim Maiwandwal....
  13. Book: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. 1964. 19–. ...Mohammed Hashim Maiwandal, Afghan ambassador in Karachi, has been appointed as the minister of press and information in Prime Minister Dr. Muhammed Yusuf's cabinet. (Kabul Domestic English 1400 GMT 19 December 1964).
  14. Book: Harris M. Lentz. Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. 4 February 2014. Routledge. 978-1-134-26490-2. 19–. He was named deputy foreign minister in 1963 and was appointed ambassador to Pakistan the following year. Etamadi served as foreign minister in the Maiwandwal government from 1965 and succeeded Maiwandwal as prime minister on November 1, 1967... Etamadi remained in the government and served as ambassador to Italy in 1971, to the Soviet Union in 1973, and to Pakistan from 1976 to 1978... Zahir served in the Ministry of Health from 1950 and became minister in 1955. In 1958 he was appointed ambassador to Pakistan, and he served there until 1961....
  15. Book: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. 1965. 35–. A diplomatic reception has been given in honor of Nur Ahmed Etemadi, who has been appointed Afghan ambassador to Pakistan....
  16. Book: The Kabul Times Annual. 1970. Kabul Times Publishing Agency. 294. Dr. Ali Ahmad Popal, First Deputy Prime Minister is appointed as Ambassador in Pakistan..
  17. Book: Louis Dupree. Afghanistan. 14 July 2014. Princeton University Press. 978-1-4008-5891-0. 693–. Dr. Popal was appointed Ambassador to Pakistan in June 1969..
  18. Book: Afghanistan, the Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990. 1991. Chadwyck-Healey, Incorporated. 56. July 23, 1973 - U.S. Embassy officials in Pakistan meet with Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Ahmad Popal in Islamabad..
  19. Book: Translations on South and East Asia. Joint Publications Research Service. 77. It has been officially announced in Islamabad that the government has agreed to the appointment of Mr Nur Ahmed Etemadi as Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan. Etemadi has been the prime minister, deputy prime minister, and foreign minister of Afghanistan.... 1976.
  20. Web site: Clements . Frank A. . Adamec . Ludwig W. . Conflict in Afghanistan: An Encyclopedia . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . en . 2 December 2003.
  21. Book: Snegirev . Vladimir . Samunin . Valery . 2011 . 978-5905308017 . 184 . ru .
  22. Web site: 300. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State1 . FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1977–1980, VOLUME XIX, SOUTH ASIA . 10 February 2022.
  23. Book: Hussain . Mushahid . Pakistan and the Changing Regional Scenario . 1988 . Progressive Press University of Michigan . 121, 128, 133 .
  24. Book: Raghav Sharma. Nation, Ethnicity and the Conflict in Afghanistan: Political Islam and the rise of ethno-politics 1992–1996. 15 July 2016. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-09012-0. 169–.
  25. Book: Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Part III. 1992. Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. 3. Afghan envoy to Islamabad appointed: Mr Mohammad Siddiq Saljouki has been appointed as the liaison officer of the Afghan diplomatic mission in Islamabad by the new Islamic government of Afghanistan..
  26. News: Afghanistan's Warring Factions Agree to Form a Ruling Council. The New York Times. 4 October 2020. 12 February 1995. Masood Khalili, Mr. Rabbani's representative in Pakistan, welcomed the agreement but said it lacks guarantees that the participants will stick to it.. https://web.archive.org/web/20201010162225/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/world/afghanistan-s-warring-factions-agree-to-form-a-ruling-council.html. 10 October 2020. live.
  27. News: Afghan immigrants face identity crisis. Chicago Tribune. 29 September 2001. 1 October 2020. Dan. Mihalopoulos.
  28. Book: Anne Stenersen. Al-Qaida in Afghanistan. 26 July 2017. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-07513-9. 86–.
  29. Book: N. Nojumi. The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region. 30 April 2016. Palgrave Macmillan US. 978-0-312-29910-1. 139–.
  30. Book: Gutman, Roy. How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan. 2008. United States Institute of Peace. 978-1-601-27024-5. 142, 147, 157.
  31. Book: Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific. 2000. British Broadcasting Corporation. 1. [The Afghan ambassador in Pakistan), Mola Sayd Mohammad Haqqani told Afghan Islamic Press that nobody can proof that that the "Taleban Islamic Emirate" has ever received military aid from anybody else including Pakistan.].
  32. Book: Abdul Salam Zaeef. My Life with the Taliban. 16 June 2011. C. Hurst (Publishers) Limited. 978-1-84904-152-2. 292–.
  33. Web site: Former Afghan ambassadors to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. Permanent Mission of Afghanistan in Geneva. 30 September 2020. 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20201105142011/https://www.geneva.mfa.af/the-embassy/former-ambassadors.html. 5 November 2020. live.
  34. News: 'Musharraf's resignation to strengthen democracy'. 21 August 2008. 30 September 2020. The Nation. Sikander. Shaheen. https://web.archive.org/web/20201105140605/https://nation.com.pk/21-Aug-2008/musharrafs-resignation-to-strengthen-democracy. 5 November 2020. live.
  35. News: Pakistan Waits For Afghan Election Results. NPR. 20 August 2009. 1 October 2020. Philip. Reeves. Yeah, this is the office of our ambassador. I'm just acting ambassador in the capacity of charge d'affaires.. https://web.archive.org/web/20201105141125/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051201. 5 November 2020. live.
  36. News: Umar Daudzai appointed Afghan envoy to Pakistan. 18 April 2011. 1 October 2020. The News. Daudzai is the senior most official of the Afghan government who has been picked for posting in Pakistan. Afghanistan has appointed full fledged ambassador in Pakistan after five years in the wake of a number of mishaps and unpleasant events... Majnoon Gulab, who is minister counsellor and deputy head of the mission since February 2006 and acting as Charge díAffairs since then, would be now be returning to Afghan capital.. https://web.archive.org/web/20201105141227/https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/613231-umar-daudzai-appointed-afghan-envoy-to-pakistan. 5 November 2020. live.
  37. News: Afghan president appoints Umer Daudzai as special envoy for Pakistan. 7 July 2020. 1 October 2020. Daily Times. Tahir. Khan. He served Afghan Envoy to Pakistan from April 2011 to August 2013 soon after the appointment of the High Peace Council to lead dialogue with Taliban.. https://web.archive.org/web/20200817033557/https://dailytimes.com.pk/636987/afghan-president-appoints-umer-daudzai-as-special-envoy-for-pakistan/. 17 August 2020. live.
  38. News: Kabul appoints Foreign Ministry spokesperson as new envoy to Islamabad. The Express Tribune. 16 November 2013. 1 October 2020. Tahir. Khan. Mosazai, a young but seasoned diplomat, has replaced Umer Daudzai who was appointed Interior Minister in September.. https://web.archive.org/web/20140311025445/http://tribune.com.pk/story/632437/kabul-appoints-foreign-ministry-spokesperson-as-top-envoy-to-islamabad/. 11 March 2014. live.
  39. News: Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Mosazai departs for home country. Khyber News. 14 January 2016. 1 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201105141448/https://khybernews.tv/afghan-ambassador-to-pakistan-mosazai-departs-for-home-country/. 5 November 2020. live.
  40. News: Seven envoys present credentials to president. The News. 10 February 2016. 1 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20180807063409/https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/97204-Seven-envoys-present-credentials-to-president. 7 August 2018. live.
  41. News: Farewell for Afghan ambassador. Dawn. 19 November 2018. 1 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20181123182336/https://www.dawn.com/news/1446426. 23 November 2018. live.
  42. News: Afghan ambassador to Pakistan says resigning to 'pursue higher education'. Arab News Pakistan. 29 July 2020. 1 October 2020. Tahir. Khan.
  43. News: Don't harass Afghans, Pakistan asks security organs. Pajhwok Afghan News. 4 January 2021. 4 January 2021.
  44. Web site: Pak allows Taliban-appointed envoys to take charge in Afghan embassies: Report. Shankhyaneel Sarkar. Hindustan Times. 13 March 2022. 14 March 2022.
  45. News: Ahmad . Jibran . Afghan Taliban appoint new envoy to run embassy in neighbouring Pakistan . 26 April 2022 . . 29 October 2021 . Mohammad Shokaib was appointed first secretary or charge d'affaires at the embassy.
  46. News: Russia Latest Country to Establish Diplomatic Ties With Taliban . 26 April 2022 . . 9 April 2022 . In recent months, at least four countries — China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkmenistan — have accredited Taliban-appointed diplomats.

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