Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan) explained

Agency Name:	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Type:	Department
Nativename:	وزارت خارجه افغانستان Pushto; Pashto: د افغانستان د بهرنیو چارو وزارت
Jurisdiction:	Government of Afghanistan
Headquarters:	Kabul
Coordinates:	34.5252°N 69.1767°W
Minister1 Name:	Amir Khan Muttaqi (Acting)
Deputyminister1 Name:	Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai (Acting)
Chief1 Name:	Abdul Qahar Balkhi
Chief1 Position:	Spokesperson

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (MoFA)^[1] (وزارت خارجه افغانستان, Pushto; Pashto: د افغانستان د بهرنیو چارو وزارت) is the cabinet ministry responsible for managing the foreign relations of Afghanistan.

On 11 January 2023, the ministry was bombed.^[2] It would again be bombed on 27 March 2023.^[3]

List of ministers

Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Political affiliation
	Mirza Ghulam Mohammad Mir Munsi	1907	1917		Independent
	Sardar Mohammad Aziz Khan	1917	1919		Independent
	Mahmud Tarzi	1919	1922		Independent
	Mohammad Wali Khan Darwazi	1922	1924		Independent
	Sardar Shir Ahmad	1924	1924		Independent
	Mahmud Tarzi	1924	1927		Independent
	Ghulam Siddiq Khan Charkhi	1927	1927		Independent
	Mohammad Wali Khan Darwazi	1927	1928		Independent
	Ghulam Siddiq Khan Charkhi	1928	January 1929		Independent
	Ata al-Haqq^[4]	January 1929	1929		Saqqawist
	Mohammad Wali Khan Darwazi	1929	1929		Independent
	Ali Mohammad Khan	1929	1929		Independent
	Faiz Muhammad Khan Zikeria	1929	1938		Independent
	Ali Mohammad Khan	1938	1953		Independent
	Sultan Ahmed Sherzai	1953	1953		Independent
	Mohammed Naim Khan	1953	1963		Independent
	Mohammad Yusuf	1963	1965		Independent
	Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi	1965	1971		Independent
	Mohammad Musa Shafiq	1971	1973		Independent
	Mohammed Daoud Khan	1973	1977		Republican
	Waheed Abdullah	1977	1978		Republican
	Hafizullah Amin	1978	1979		PDPA
	Shah Wali	1979	1979		PDPA
	Shah Mohammad Dost	1979	1986		PDPA
	Mohammad Abdul Wakil	1986	1992		PDPA
	Sayed Solaiman Gilani	1992	1993
	Hedayat Amin Arsala	1993	1994		Mahaz-e-Milli-ye Islami
	Najibullah Lafraie	1994	1996		Jamiat-e Islami
	Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai	1996	21 August 1997 †		Independent
	Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai	1996	December 1996		Taliban
	Mohammad Ghous	1996	June 1997		Taliban
	Mullah Abdul Jalil	June 1997	1998		Taliban
	Hasan Akhund	1998	27 October 1999		Taliban
	Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil	27 October 1999	October 2001		Taliban
	Abdullah Abdullah	22 December 2001	22 March 2005		Etelaf-e Milli
	Rangin Dadfar Spanta	20 April 2005	18 January 2010		Independent
	Zalmai Rassoul	18 January 2010	28 October 2013		Independent
	Zarar Ahmad Osmani	28 October 2013	12 December 2014
	Atiqullah Atifmal	12 December 2014	1 February 2015
	Salahuddin Rabbani	1 February 2015	23 October 2019		Jamiat-e Islami
	Idrees Zaman	30 October 2019	22 January 2020
	Mohammad Haroon Chakhansuri	22 January 2020	4 April 2020
	Mohammad Haneef Atmar	4 April 2020	15 August 2021		Hezb-e-Haq-wa-Adalat
	Amir Khan Muttaqi	7 September 2021^[5]	Incumbent		Taliban

See also

• Cabinet of Afghanistan

External links

• • Consular Affairs Division
• https://twitter.com/MoFA_Afg

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home . Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan . 29 December 2021.
2. Web site: 2023-01-11 . Deadly suicide bombing at Afghan foreign ministry . 2023-01-11 . BBC News . en-GB.
3. News: Six killed in suicide attack near Afghan foreign ministry. Al Jazeera. 27 March 2023. 1 April 2023.
4. Book: Muḥammad. Fayz̤. Kabul under siege: Fayz Muhammad's account of the 1929 Uprising. McChesney. R. D.. 1999. Markus Wiener Publishers. 9781558761544. 57, 58.
5. News: Taliban announce new government for Afghanistan . 2021-09-07 . . 2021-09-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210907212403/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58479750 . 2021-09-07 . live .