Naeem Wardak
Naeem Wardak | |
|---|---|
| ډاکټر محمد نعیم وردک | |
| Acting Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office 27 January 2025 | |
| Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
| Minister | Amir Khan Muttaqi (acting) |
| Preceded by | Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai |
| First Secretary of the Afghan Embassy in Qatar | |
| In office October 2021 – 27 January 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Abdul Hakim Dalili (as ambassador) |
| Succeeded by | Suhail Shaheen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mohammad Naeem Wardak 1985 (age 39–40) Chak District, Wardak Province, Afghanistan |
| Political party | Taliban |
| Alma mater | Nangarhar University International Islamic University, Islamabad Darul Uloom Haqqania |
Mohammad Naeem Wardak (Pashto: ډاکټر محمد نعیم وردک; born 1985) is a senior member of the Afghan Taliban and the country's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime since 27 January 2025. He also previously served as head of the Afghan Embassy in Qatar from 2021 to 2025 and the spokesman of the Taliban's Political Office from 2020 to 2025, in the same position from 2013 to 2015.