Amir Khan Muttaqi
امیر خان متقی
Muttaqi in 2021
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Acting
Assumed office
7 September 2021
Prime MinisterHasan Akhund (acting)
DeputySher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai (acting)
Supreme LeaderHibatullah Akhundzada
Preceded byHaneef Atmar
Member of the Leadership Council
Assumed office
15 August 2021
In exile
May 2002[1] – 15 August 2021
Minister of Education and Minister of Information and Culture
In office
c. 1996 – c. 2001
LeaderMullah Omar
Succeeded byNoorullah Munir (2021)
Personal details
Born (1971-02-26) 26 February 1971
Nad-e-Ali,Helmand, Kingdom of Afghanistan
Political affiliationTaliban

Amir Khan Muttaqi (Pashto: امیر خان متقی [ˈamɪr xɑn mʊtaˈqi]; born 26 February 1971) is an Afghan Taliban politician serving as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021.[2] He was also a member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office.[3]

Early life and education

Khan was born on 26 February 1971 in a village of the Helmand Province, his family's roots being in the Paktia Province, getting his primary education in a local school and mosque but because of the communist Saur Revolution, he had to move with his family to neighboring Pakistan, where he was enrolled in a refugees’ madrasa and studied subjects such as Arabic grammar, logic, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadith and Qur’anic exegesis.[4]

He continued his higher Islamic studies at the Darul Uloom Haqqania, a seminary in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from which many other influential Talibans graduated.[5]

Political career

He was initially part of Maulvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi's group during the Afghan jihad but later joined the Taliban movement when it emerged.[6]

Khan served as Minister of Information and Culture and as a representative of the 1996–2001 Taliban government in United Nations-led talks.[7][8] During that time, a pro-Taliban source says that his "innovative activities" led to "a systematic jihadist publication apparatus against the enemy’s widespread media aggression."[9]

On 17 August 2021, just after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, he was reported to be in Kabul talking to non-Taliban politicians such as Abdullah Abdullah and Hamid Karzai about forming a government.[10] Taliban forces took control of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul on 15 August 2021 during a military offensive against the Afghan government that had begun in May 2021.

On 7 September 2021, the Taliban announced the first members of a new "acting" government, three weeks after coming to full power with the takeover of Kabul on 15 August. Amir Khan Muttaqi was appointed as Afghanistan's acting foreign minister.[2]

In December 2021, Amir Khan Muttaqi attended a session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council of foreign ministers as Afghanistan delegate.[11] The session were attended by delegations from 57 nations with China, Russia, and United States of America as guest delegations.[12] Amir Khan discussed with Pakistan prime minister, Imran Khan, regarding the threat of ISIS in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.[13]

Writings

In 2004 he wrote a book which was banned by the Taliban leadership, which thought some of its information could not be aired publicly.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sayed, Abdul (8 September 2021). "Analysis: How Are the Taliban Organized?". Voice of America. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 Pal, Alasdair (7 September 2021). "Factbox: Who are the key figures in the new Taliban government?". Reuters. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Former Taliban minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrives to the signing of a US-Taliban agreement in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29, 2020". Getty Images.
  4. ↑ "Biography Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan". Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  5. ↑ ur-Rehman, Zia (25 November 2021). "Where Afghanistan's New Taliban Leaders Went to School". New York Times.
  6. ↑ "طالبان مذاکراتی ٹیم میں کون کیا ہے؟". BBC News اردو.
  7. ↑ "AMIR KHAN MOTAQI | United Nations Security Council". www.un.org. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "Biography of Amir Khan Muttaqi". 6 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Translation of the biographies of the Taleban negotiation team". Afghanistan Analysts Network. 21 September 2020.
  10. ↑ "Afghanistan: flights resume in Kabul as Taliban 'hold talks to form government'". The Guardian. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  11. ↑ "The U.S. failed in Afghanistan by trying to moralize with bullets and bombs". theconversation. theconversation. 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "OIC Pimpin Pertemuan Bahas Krisis Kemanusiaan, Ekonomi Afghanistan" (in Indonesian). VOA Indonesian region. Voice of America. 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "Amir Khan Muttaqi downplays Imran Khan's remarks at OIC summit". The News. The News. 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  14. ↑ van Linschoten, Alex Strick; Kuehn, Felix (2012). An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan. Oxford University Press. p. 448.
  15. ↑ Giustozzi, Antonio (2012). Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field. Hurst Publishers. p. 272.
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