M. Ashraf Haidari headed the Afghan delegation in the Eleven-Party and Six-Party Meetings on peace in Afghanistan, hosted by the government of the Russian Federation in Moscow in April and February 2017. Haidari is the director-general of Policy & Strategy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, and formerly served as the country’s Deputy Chief of Mission to India. Prior to this, he was Afghanistan’s Deputy Assistant National Security Advisor, as well as Afghan Chargé d’Affaires to the United States. He tweets at @MAshrafHaidari.

Image: Afghan National Army recruits during Basic Warrior Training. Flickr/DVIDSHUB