Zalmai rassoul biography of barack
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Afghan Biographies
1. Former Ambassadors:
Ahmad Wali Masood, Massood Massoud ()
Dr. Mohammad Rahim Sherzoy,
Homaioun Tandar ( )
Dr. Hameed Haami ( - )
Dr. Mohammad Daud Yaar Mohammad Daud Yar (, )
Ahmad Zia Siamak (Charge d’Affair ( )
Liaquet Ali Ameri (Charge d’Affair )
Said Tayeb Jawad ()
Dr. Zalmay Rassool ()
Embassy Staff as of
MOHAMMAD YASER SADEQ
Counsellor (Political Affairs)
MOHAMMAD HANIF AHMADZAI
Political Counsellor (Political Affairs)
AHMAD NAVEED NOORMAL
First Secretary (Consular Affairs)
BABAKHAN ASLAMI
First Secretary (Cultural Affairs)
AQILA RAHMANI
Second Secretary(Political Affairs)
HOMAIRA SADAT DASHTI
Second Secretary (Admin/Finance Affairs)
MOHAMMAD ASIF NOORZAI
Third Secretary (Commercial/Economic Affairs)
COL. HAROON NADERI
(Defence Attaché)
Embassy Staff as of
Ahmad Zia Siamak
Counsellor
Tel:
M. Hanif Ahmadzai
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Afghanistan
AS HIS COUNTRY’S former utländsk Minister, Afghanistan’s new Ambassador Dr Zalmai Rassoul has a wealth of experience in diplomacy, international affairs, governance and consensus building. Having arrived in London in January, Dr Rassoul notes that the UK “has played a key role in shaping the Afghan political landscape post-9/” He continues: “Having had the privilege of serving as a representative to Afghanistan for many years… I think [my experiences] will prove very useful in the UK. inom look forward to reconnecting with representatives of Afghanistan’s regional friends, while also hoping to build new partnerships.” He’s observed that the health pandemic has presented an opportunity for the government “to update and digitalise our systems and man them more easily accessible in the face of crises.”
Born in Kabul, Dr Rassoul received a scholarship to study medicine in France, becoming a doctor in After serving at various institutions, he began working as the Director
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King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan, who reigned after his country gained independence from Great Britain, in , collected automobiles and tried to modernize Afghan society through reforms such as compulsory education. In , his government purchased a new Embassy in London, a four-story mid-Victorian edifice at Princes Gate, across Kensington Road from Hyde Park, near the Royal Albert Hall. The King’s change agenda provoked a violent revolt, however, and in Amanullah fled Kabul, reportedly in a Rolls-Royce. (He died in Switzerland in ) Yet the London Embassy remained—a graceful and rapidly appreciating possession of an isolated, often vulnerable nation.
Zalmai Rassoul, a nephew of Amanullah’s who is now eighty years old, today lives alone in an apartment on the Embassy’s upper floors. In , President Ashraf Ghani appointed Rassoul as the Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland. In June, , Queen Elizabeth II met him over Zoom, to accept his credentials in the U.K. By that time, the