Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai

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Haji Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai (died August 21, 1997) was an Afghan politician and diplomat.

Ghafoorzai was an ethnic Pashtun and a member of the Mohammadzai tribe. During the 1970s he entered the Afghan foreign service. He was out of the country when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. From then until 1992, he worked as a representative Afghan official to trigger international support against the regime that the Soviets had set up in Afghanistan. When the communist government fell in 1992, Ghafoorzai became a member of the new government. He worked in the United Nations until 1995, and then became deputy foreign minister. He became foreign minister in July 1996, but his time in this position was short-lived, as in September 1996 the Taliban captured Afghanistan's capital, Qabul.

Ghafoorzai remained politically active as the Taliban advanced, becoming a member of the Afghan Northern Alliance opposition movement. On August 11, 1997, just 10 days before his death, he was appointed prime minister of the opposition government. He was killed in a plane crash in Bamyan Province. He also owned a fried chicken business in the States until it burned.