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Amir Khan Muttaqi
Amir Khan Muttaqi (Pashto: امیر خان متقی [ˈamɪr xɑn mʊtaˈqi]; born 26 February 1971) is an Afghan Taliban politician serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 2021. He was also a member of the Taliban negotiation team in the Qatar office.
Khan was born on 26 February 1971 in Zarghoon village of Nad Ali District, in Helmand Province. His family originates from Paktia Province, and Khan initially received his primary education in a local school and mosque. Due to 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 Tafsir.
He continued his higher Islamic studies at the Darul Uloom Haqqania, a seminary in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from which many other influential Taliban members graduated.
He reportedly lived in Banaras Colony in Karachi, Pakistan during his stay and still has properties, real estate and many other business interests in Pakistan.
He was initially part of Maulvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi's group during the Afghan jihad but later joined the Taliban movement when it emerged.
He has held a series of senior positions within the Taliban movement. In 1999, he served as a member of the Taliban High Council and was also placed in charge of Kandahar Radio. That same year he became Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khan served as Minister of Information and Culture and as a representative of the 1996–2001 Taliban government in United Nations-led talks. 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."
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. 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.[citation needed]
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. Muttaqi was reappointed on a permanent basis with the rest of the cabinet on 15 August 2025.
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Amir Khan Muttaqi
Amir Khan Muttaqi (Pashto: امیر خان متقی [ˈamɪr xɑn mʊtaˈqi]; born 26 February 1971) is an Afghan Taliban politician serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 2021. He was also a member of the Taliban negotiation team in the Qatar office.
Khan was born on 26 February 1971 in Zarghoon village of Nad Ali District, in Helmand Province. His family originates from Paktia Province, and Khan initially received his primary education in a local school and mosque. Due to 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 Tafsir.
He continued his higher Islamic studies at the Darul Uloom Haqqania, a seminary in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from which many other influential Taliban members graduated.
He reportedly lived in Banaras Colony in Karachi, Pakistan during his stay and still has properties, real estate and many other business interests in Pakistan.
He was initially part of Maulvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi's group during the Afghan jihad but later joined the Taliban movement when it emerged.
He has held a series of senior positions within the Taliban movement. In 1999, he served as a member of the Taliban High Council and was also placed in charge of Kandahar Radio. That same year he became Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khan served as Minister of Information and Culture and as a representative of the 1996–2001 Taliban government in United Nations-led talks. 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."
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. 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.[citation needed]
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. Muttaqi was reappointed on a permanent basis with the rest of the cabinet on 15 August 2025.
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