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Afghan politician and diplomat
Ahmad Wali Massoud
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Born
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1964-11-01
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1 November 1964
(age 59)
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Occupation(s)
| Chairman and Founder of Massoud Foundation, Politician, Ex-Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UK
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Ahmad Wali Massoud
(
Dari Persian
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; born 1 November 1964) is an Afghan politician and diplomat who is the founder and chairman of the
Massoud Foundation
in Afghanistan. He is the younger brother of the late
Ahmad Shah Massoud
.
Massoud obtained a degree in diplomatic studies from
University of Westminster
, London in 1989. He has served as Afghan ambassador to the UK, special representative of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Europe, and the representative of the
Jamiat-e Islami
Party in London. He is the founder of a political party called Nahzat-e-Melli-ye Afghanistan (
National Movement of Afghanistan
). He is the founder of the
Mandegar Daily
newspaper and the history magazine
Yad?e-Yar
(The Memory of Friends). Massoud published the
National Agenda
, his first book, in 2012.
[1]
In September 2021, TRT World journalist Samuel Ramani was able to speak with Massoud. During the interview, which was published in the 21 September edition of
TRT World
, Massoud stated that the Resistance still controls much of the Valley and downplayed the reported strength of the Taliban, which he described as "leaderless."
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Ramani stated that his interview with Massoud was conducted the week before it was published.
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During the interview, Massoud also described former Afghanistan President
Ashraf Ghani
's government as too corrupt to survive and also cast doubt on the notion that the Taliban had the military capacity to successfully take power without outside assistance, accusing US Special Envoy to Afghanistan
Zalmay Khalilzad
of having a role in orchestrating their return to power.
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Massoud also described Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mark Milley
’s September 1, 2021 assertion that the Taliban could fight
ISIS-K
as "very naive."
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