:Amir Khan Muttaqi

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.{{Cite web |title=Biography Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan |url=https://mfa.gov.af/en/minister-biography/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |language=en-US}}

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.{{Cite web |last=ur-Rehman |first=Zia |date=25 November 2021 |title=Where Afghanistan's New Taliban Leaders Went to School |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-afghanistan-madrasa.html |website=New York Times}}

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He was initially part of Maulvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi's group during the Afghan jihad but later joined the Taliban movement when it emerged.{{Cite news |title=طالبان مذاکراتی ٹیم میں کون کیا ہے؟ |newspaper=BBC News اردو |url=https://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan-47359918}}

Khan served as Minister of Information and Culture and as a representative of the 1996–2001 Taliban government in United Nations-led talks.{{Cite web |title=AMIR KHAN MOTAQI {{!}} United Nations Security Council |url=https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1988/materials/summaries/individual/amir-khan-motaqi |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.un.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.afghan-web.com/biographies/biography-of-amir-khan-muttaqi/|title = Biography of Amir Khan Muttaqi|date = 6 March 2018}} 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."{{Cite web |date=21 September 2020 |title=Translation of the biographies of the Taleban negotiation team |url=https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/resources/peace-process/translation-of-the-biographies-of-the-taleban-negotiation-team/ |website=Afghanistan Analysts Network}}

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.{{cite news |title=Afghanistan: flights resume in Kabul as Taliban 'hold talks to form government' |date=17 August 2021 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/afghanistan-flights-resume-kabul-airport-taliban-leader-holds-talks-to-form-government |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 September 2021}} 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.{{fact|date=May 2023}}

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.

In December 2021, Amir Khan Muttaqi attended a session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council of foreign ministers as Afghanistan delegate.{{cite news |title=The U.S. failed in Afghanistan by trying to moralize with bullets and bombs |url=https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-failed-in-afghanistan-by-trying-to-moralize-with-bullets-and-bombs-174033 |access-date=5 March 2022 |agency=theconversation |publisher=theconversation |date=2022 |language=en}} The session were attended by delegations from 57 nations with China, Russia, and United States of America as guest delegations.{{cite news |title=OIC Pimpin Pertemuan Bahas Krisis Kemanusiaan, Ekonomi Afghanistan |url=https://www.voaindonesia.com/a/oic-pimpin-pertemuan-bahas-krisis-kemanusiaan-ekonomi-afghanistan/6360696.html |access-date=5 March 2022 |agency=Voice of America |publisher=VOA Indonesian region |date=2021 |language=id}} Amir Khan discussed with Pakistan prime minister, Imran Khan, regarding the threat of ISIS in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.{{cite news |title=Amir Khan Muttaqi downplays Imran Khan's remarks at OIC summit |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/918534-muttaqi-downplays-imran-khan-s-remarks-at-oic-summit |access-date=5 March 2022 |agency=The News |publisher=The News |date=2021 |language=en}}

In 2004 he wrote a book which was banned by the Taliban leadership, which thought some of its information could not be aired publicly.{{Cite book |last1=van Linschoten |first1=Alex Strick |title=An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan |last2=Kuehn |first2=Felix |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |pages=448}}{{Cite book |last=Giustozzi |first=Antonio |title=Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field |publisher=Hurst Publishers |year=2012 |pages=272}}

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• Abdul Latif Mansur

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