
Ahmad Wali Massoud (1 November 1964-) was the Afghan Ambassador to the United Kingdom and a Jamiat-e Islami politician.
Biography[]
Ahmad Wali Massoud was born in Panjshir, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan on 1 November 1964, the younger brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud. He went to college in the United Kingdom, obtaining a degree in diplomatic studies from the University of Westminster in 1989; he served as his brother's special representative in Europe during the Afghan Civil War and then as the representative of the Jamiat-e Islami party in London. Following his brother's assassination and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Massoud served as the Afghan ambassador to the United Kingdom, and he founded his own political party, the National Movement Party of Afghanistan, and became an author and journalist. Amid the 2021 Taliban offensive and the Panjshir conflict, he expressed his belief that the Taliban could not take power without outside assistance, and that President Ashraf Ghani's government was too corrupt to survive. Even after the fall of the Islamic Republic, he continued to chair his own foundation, the Massoud Foundation.