The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan is the top-level diplomatic representative of Afghanistan in Pakistan. 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 relations, both countries being neighbours and Pakistan facilitating overland transit trade for a landlocked Afghanistan.[3]
^Etemadi served two non-consecutive terms as ambassador to Pakistan.
^Gulab was the Afghan chargé d'affaires in Islamabad. In September 2008, Afghanistan's ambassador-designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi was abducted by armed gunmen in Peshawar and held in captivity until 13 November 2010.[35][3] Due to his absence, Gulab took over as acting ambassador and held the position until Daudzai's appointment as ambassador in 2011.
^A.Z. Hilali (5 July 2017). US-Pakistan Relationship: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Taylor & Francis. pp. 45–. ISBN978-1-351-87623-0. 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.
^Rahi, Arwin (10 September 2020). "Afghanistan and Pakistan's oft-ignored history – 1947-1978". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020. Afghanistan and Pakistan held initial negotiations in Karachi in November 1947, and exchanged ambassadors in February 1948.
^Foreign Affairs Reports. 1952. p. 85. Afghanistan appointed Sardar Atiq Khan Rafiq as Ambassador in Karachi, a post that had been lying vacant ever since June 1949.
^Collier's ... Year Book Covering the Year ... P.F. Collier & Son. 1956. p. 8. A series of minor incidents followed, even though on April 1 Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Sardar Atiq Khan, apologized for the attack.
^ abcHarris M. Lentz (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. pp. 19–. ISBN978-1-134-26490-2. 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...
^Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan. Pakistan Herald Publications. June 1963. pp. 14–. The occasion was the presentation of the credentials by the Afghan Ambassador, Mr. Muhammad Hashim Maiwandwal...
^United States. Central Intelligence Agency (1964). Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. pp. 19–. ...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)
^United States. Central Intelligence Agency (1965). Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. pp. 35–. A diplomatic reception has been given in honor of Nur Ahmed Etemadi, who has been appointed Afghan ambassador to Pakistan...
^The Kabul Times Annual. Kabul Times Publishing Agency. 1970. p. 294. Dr. Ali Ahmad Popal, First Deputy Prime Minister is appointed as Ambassador in Pakistan.
^Louis Dupree (14 July 2014). Afghanistan. Princeton University Press. pp. 693–. ISBN978-1-4008-5891-0. Dr. Popal was appointed Ambassador to Pakistan in June 1969.
^Afghanistan, the Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990. Chadwyck-Healey, Incorporated. 1991. p. 56. July 23, 1973 - U.S. Embassy officials in Pakistan meet with Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Ahmad Popal in Islamabad.
^Translations on South and East Asia. Joint Publications Research Service. 1976. p. 77. 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...
^Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Part III. Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. 1992. p. 3. 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.
^"Afghanistan's Warring Factions Agree to Form a Ruling Council". The New York Times. 12 February 1995. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020. Masood Khalili, Mr. Rabbani's representative in Pakistan, welcomed the agreement but said it lacks guarantees that the participants will stick to it.
^Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2000. p. 1. [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.
^Reeves, Philip (20 August 2009). "Pakistan Waits For Afghan Election Results". NPR. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020. Yeah, this is the office of our ambassador. I'm just acting ambassador in the capacity of charge d'affaires.
^ ab"Umar Daudzai appointed Afghan envoy to Pakistan". The News. 18 April 2011. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020. 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.
^Khan, Tahir (7 July 2020). "Afghan president appoints Umer Daudzai as special envoy for Pakistan". Daily Times. Archived from the original on 17 August 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020. 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.