Foreign Ministry spokesperson Janan Mosazai. PHOTO: AFGHAN FOREIGN MINISTRY
Mosazai, a young but seasoned diplomat, has replaced Umer Daudzai who was appointed Interior Minister in September.
He will assume his new position in Pakistan at a time when relations between the two countries face many challenges.
"I can confirm that Janan Mosazai has been designated as Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan," an Afghan official told The Express Tribune. The official did not want his identity to be revealed. He also said that President Hamid Karzai has approved a summary from the Foreign Ministry.
Diplomatic sources in Islamabad told The Express Tribune that the new ambassador is likely to arrive in Islamabad later this month as the Afghan embassy has to deal with important developments including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Kabul.
A delegation of the Afghan High Peace Council is also planned to visit Islamabad to meet the senior Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Nawaz had agreed in the London trilateral summit last month to allow members of the peace council to visit Pakistan and meet the senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Baradar, whose release is still a mystery.
Mosazai is familiar with Pakistan as he has accompanied President Karzai and Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministers in several recent visits.
The newly appointed ambassador to Pakistan stated at his weekly press briefing in Kabul on November 10 that the killing of the late Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone strike and the appointment of Mullah Fazalullah as TTP’s new leader will not affect Islamabad’s commitment to Afghan peace process.
Mosazai has served as a freelance journalist and civil society activist in Kabul. He formerly worked as a political affairs officer with the United Nations in Afghanistan.
He also contested for the National Assembly “Wolesi Jirga” in 2010 election for a Kabul constituency but could not win the seat.
Born on March 21, 1980 in Kabul, he got his primary education in Kabul and continued his higher studies in Bishkek, where he studied political science and international relations.
He migrated to Canada, where he got his Masters in Journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa in 2010.
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Janan Musazai maybe young but he is already a seasoned diplomat due to the learning curve he had to endure as a spokesman for the foreign ministry. A good choice by the Afghans.
@Abbas
Karzai never lived in the US, his brothers did. Afghanistan was never colonized, so you are correct about it not being a commomwealth state.
Hina rabbbani kharr recently remained as foreign minister and she was young too, when most your ministers were and are british nationals why he cannnot be as abbasador ... according national constituation of AFghanistan abbassadors can have dual nationality.
Afghanistan is not a Commonwealth state. It was never a part of the British Empire a prerequisite to Commonwealth membership
@A-No,1:
The new ambassadiors appointment is a series of steps the US-UK-Pakistani plan to stablize Afghanistan that is now falling into place He may be a Canadain Afghan but so is Karzai's brothers (who are Afghan American and Karazai may also have a similar citizenship arrangment). In the end Mosazai's immigration to Canada and his schooling there may have opened up a vision which is beyond being focused on a view of Afghanistan thru the prizm of his tribal loyalties.
If the Loya Jirga goes ahead and delivers a positive nod on the SOFA agreement, while the impending breakthrough in Iranian American talks to be restarted on the 20th there is a very good chance there may be overall stablization of Afghanistan in the near future.
The final deal with the TTP while continously degrading them should be best left to after all the other elements are in place.
Pakistan's society has great promise in the next decade free from extemism as well as cross border terrrorism.
He can, because as a Canadian Citizen - he becomes a UK subject (Canada being under British Crown) and Afghanistan being one of the common wealth States.
As a Canadian national I wonder how he can represent Afghanistan as its ambassador?