| Karim Khalili | |
| Office: | Chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council |
| Term Start: | 6 June 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Ahmed Gailani |
| President: | Ashraf Ghani |
| Order2: | Second Vice President of Afghanistan |
| Term Start2: | 7 December 2004 |
| Term End2: | 29 September 2014 |
| President2: | Hamid Karzai |
| Predecessor2: | Ahmed Shakar Karkar |
| Successor2: | Sarwar Danish |
| Birth Place: | Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan |
| Party: | Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan |
| Profession: | Politician, Hezbe Wahdat leader, former Mujahideen leader |
Karim Khalili (Persian: کریم خلیلی; born 1950) is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party.[1] Most recently he was Chief of the Afghan High Peace Council from 2017 until its dissolvement in 2019.[2] He was selected as a candidate for Second Vice President of Afghanistan in 2002 by Hamid Karzai; they were elected in 2004 and left office in 2014.[3] Since 1989, he has also been one of the main leaders of the Wahdat political party of Hazara.[4]
Khalili was born in the Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan in 1950 as either Muhammad Karim Khalili or Abdul Karim Khalili[5] [2] [6] [7] and belongs to Hazara ethnic group.[8] [9] He attended religious schools during his childhood and moved to Kabul in 1970 to continue his education.[10] He participated in the Afghanistan resistance during Soviet invasion. He also served as Minister of Finance of Afghanistan during the Mujahideen government in the early 1990s.[11]
He has two sons, the older of which is Mohammad Taqi Khalili, Afghanistan's Ambassador to Azerbaijan.[12]