List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States

The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States of America was the official diplomatic representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States. The ambassador and the embassy staff at large worked at the Afghan Embassy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The last ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was Adela Raz, who succeeded Roya Rahmani in July 2021. In February 2022, Raz resigned.^[2] The embassy and consulates closed the following month, and all diplomatic and consular activities stopped.^[3]

Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States
Flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Status	Office abolished
Seat	Washington, D.C.
Nominator	President of Afghanistan
Formation	June 4, 1943 (1943-06-04) (original) 2002 (2002) (most recent)
First holder	Abdul Hussain Aziz
Final holder	Adela Raz
Abolished	February 18, 2022 (2022-02-18)
Superseded by	Ambassador to Canada (accredited representative)[1]
Website	afghanembassy.us/the-ambassador (dead) (7 March 2022 archive)

List

No.	Name	Title	Appointment	Presentation	Termination	Appointer
Kingdom of Afghanistan
1	Abdul Hussain Aziz	Minister	1943	4 June 1943	1946	King Mohammed Zahir Shah
2	Habibullah Khan Tarzi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1946	1946	1953
3	Mohammed Kabir Ludin	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1953	–	1956
4	Najib Ullah	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1956	–	1958
5	Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1958	–	1963
6	Abdul Majid	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1963	–	1967
7	Abdullah Malikyar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1967	–	1978
Republic of Afghanistan
7	Abdullah Malikyar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1967	–	1978	King Mohammed Zahir Shah
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
8	Abdul Waheed Karim	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1978	–	1980	Nur Muhammad Taraki
9	Nur Ahmed Nur	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1980	–	1981	Babrak Karmal
–	Mohed Salem Spartak	Chargé d'affaires	1982	–	1984
–	Mohammad Haidar Rafiq	Chargé d'affaires	1984	–	1985
–	Mohammad Ashraf Samimi	Chargé d'affaires	1985	–	1986
10	Rouhullah Erfaqi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1986	–	1987
11	Mia Gul	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1988	–	1990	Mohammad Najibullah
–	Abdul Ghafoor Jawshan	Chargé d'affaires	1990	–	1992
Islamic State of Afghanistan
–	Abdul Rahim	Chargé d'affaires	1992	–	1994	Burhanuddin Rabbani
–	Yar Mohammad Mohabat	Chargé d'affaires	1994	–	1995
Northern Alliance of Afghanistan
–	None appointed 1995–2002
Afghan Transitional Administration
–	Haroun Amin	Chargé d'affaires	2002	–	2002	Hamid Karzai
12	Ishaq Shahyar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	2002	–	4 December 2003
13	Said Tayeb Jawad	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	4 December 2003	–	2010
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
13	Said Tayeb Jawad	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	4 December 2003	–	22 September 2010	Hamid Karzai
–	Khojesta Fana Ebrahimkhel	Chargé d'affaires	22 September 2010	–	14 February 2011
14	Eklil Ahmad Hakimi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	14 February 2011	23 February 2011	September 2015
15	Hamdullah Mohib	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 2015	September 2015	August 2018	Ashraf Ghani
–	Madina Qasimi	Chargé d'affaires	August 2018	August 2018	December 2018
16	Roya Rahmani	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 2018	December 2018	July 2021
17	Adela Raz	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	26 July 2021 (2021-07-26)[4]		Stepped down 18 February 2022 (2022-02-18)[2]

Chief of Protocol^[5]