Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan | |
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Incumbent | |
Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
Style | His Excellency |
Residence | Islamabad, Pakistan |
Seat | Embassy of Afghanistan |
Appointer | Foreign Minister[2] |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | 1947 |
First holder | Sardar Najibullah Khan |
Website | islamabad |
The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan is the top-level diplomatic representative of AfghanistaninPakistan. 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]
Diplomatic relations were terminated on 6 September 1961 and restored on 28 May 1963.[12]
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.
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.
Afghanistan and Pakistan held initial negotiations in Karachi in November 1947, and exchanged ambassadors in February 1948.
Afghanistan appointed Sardar Atiq Khan Rafiq as Ambassador in Karachi, a post that had been lying vacant ever since June 1949.
A series of minor incidents followed, even though on April 1 Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Sardar Atiq Khan, apologized for the attack.
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...
The occasion was the presentation of the credentials by the Afghan Ambassador, Mr. Muhammad Hashim Maiwandwal...
...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)
A diplomatic reception has been given in honor of Nur Ahmed Etemadi, who has been appointed Afghan ambassador to Pakistan...
Dr. Ali Ahmad Popal, First Deputy Prime Minister is appointed as Ambassador in Pakistan.
Dr. Popal was appointed Ambassador to Pakistan in June 1969.
July 23, 1973 - U.S. Embassy officials in Pakistan meet with Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Ahmad Popal in Islamabad.
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...
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.
Masood Khalili, Mr. Rabbani's representative in Pakistan, welcomed the agreement but said it lacks guarantees that the participants will stick to it.
[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.
Yeah, this is the office of our ambassador. I'm just acting ambassador in the capacity of charge d'affaires.
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.
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.
Mosazai, a young but seasoned diplomat, has replaced Umer Daudzai who was appointed Interior Minister in September.
Mohammad Shokaib was appointed first secretary or charge d'affaires at the embassy
In recent months, at least four countries — China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkmenistan — have accredited Taliban-appointed diplomats