Mohammad Yusuf (politician)

For other people with a similar name, see Mohammad Yusuf Khan (disambiguation), Mohammad Yousuf (disambiguation) or Yousaf Khan (disambiguation).

Dr. Mohammad Yusuf Khan (1917 – January 23, 1998) was the prime minister and foreign minister of Afghanistan from March 10, 1963 to November 2, 1965. He was a technocrat who served under the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah. He was the first Afghan prime minister not to be part of the royal family. He resigned on October 29, 1965.

Yusuf's predecessor, Mohammed Daoud Khan, had made him Minister of Mines and Industries in the 1950s. After serving as prime minister, he was appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union, but left this post in 1973 following Daoud Khan's coup. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, he went into exile in Germany, where he lived until his death. ^[1]

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• Afghan statesmen

Prime Ministers of Afghanistan since 1929 Kingdom Mohammad Hashim Khan Mohammed Daoud Khan Mohammad Yusuf Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal Abdullah Yaqta Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi Sharifi Abdul Zahir Mohammad Musa Shafiq Communist Republic Nur Muhammad Taraki Hafizullah Amin Babrak Karmal Sultan Ali Keshtmand Mohammad Hasan Sharq Sultan Ali Keshtmand Fazal Haq Khaliqyar Islamic State Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Arsala Rahmani Daulat Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Islamic Emirate Mohammad Rabbani Abdul Kabir