Ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to the People's Republic of China | |
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Seat | Beijing |
Appointer | Foreign Minister [1] |
Inaugural holder | Habibullah Khan Tarzi |
Formation | 1946 |
Website | Embassy Twitter |
The ambassador of Afghanistan to China is the official representative of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to the People's Republic of China.
Diplomatic agrément/ Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Observations | Afghan head of state | Chinese head of state | Term end |
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1946 | Habibullah Khan Tarzi | Mohammed Zahir Shah | Chiang Kai-shek | 1946 | |
1956 | Abdul Samad (Afghan envoy) | Mao Zedong | 1962 | ||
1962 | Mohamed Shoeb Misskinyar | Liu Shaoqi | 1966 | ||
1966 | Mohammad Assef Sohail | 1970 | |||
1970 | Mohammad Osman Sidky | Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu (acting) | 1973 | ||
January 10, 1974 | Mir Mohammad Yussuf | Dong Biwu (acting) | 1976 | ||
1977 | Mohammad Yassin Azim | Soong Ching-ling (acting) | 1979 | ||
2003 | Qiamuddin Rai Barlas | Hamid Karzai | Hu Jintao | November 4, 2005 | |
December 28, 2005 | Eklil Ahmad Hakimi | March 18, 2009 | |||
November 22, 2009 | Sultan Ahmad Baheen | ||||
June 8, 2015 | Mohammad Kabir Farahi | [4] | Ashraf Ghani | Xi Jinping | |
February 2016 | Janan Mosazai | [5] | September 2018 | ||
November 26, 2019 | Javid Ahmad Qaem | January 2, 2022 [6] | |||
April 4, 2022 [7] [8] [9] | Muhayuddin Sadaat | Chargé d'Affaires | Hibatullah Akhundzada | December 1, 2023 | |
December 1, 2023 | Bilal Karimi | First Taliban-appointed ambassador to receive accreditation. [10] | Incumbent |
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I am taking leave from 2nd January 2022. Looking to the circumstance and restrictions, it is not very clear when I can return to office. So, I am leaving this hand over note for a smooth transition at the Afghan Embassy in Beijing.
The Taliban had sought to undermine Qaem by tapping their own replacement, another former Afghan diplomat, Mahyuddin Sadat, as the embassy's first secretary.
Of those, only four — China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkmenistan — have formally accredited diplomats appointed by the Taliban