Ghulam Siddiq Charkhi

Ghulam Siddiq Charkhi (* 1894 ; † 1962 ) was an Afghan diplomat and politician .

Life

Ghulam Siddiq Khan Charkhi was the son of Ghulam Haidar Khan Charkhi, a field marshal in Habibullah Khan's army , and the brother of Ghulam Nabi Charkhi . He became the secretary of Amanullah Khan .

After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War , on August 8, 1919, Mohammad Wali Darwazi visited European capitals and Washington, DC to establish diplomatic relations. This mission included Ghulam Siddiq Khan Charkhi as a second-class legation councilor. In 1921 he was a signatory to the Afghan-Soviet treaty. In 1927, when Mahmud Tarzi was in Europe, he was acting foreign minister. In 1931 he became envoy in Berlin . After Mohammed Nadir had Shah Ghulam Nabi Charkhi executed on November 7, 1932, he had his brother replaced in Berlin by his half-brother Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan . Ghulam Siddiq Charkhi stayed in Berlin until May 8, 1945 and then returned to Afghanistan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Khaled Siddiq Charkhi, From My Memories: Memoirs of Political Imprisonment from Childhood in Afghanistan , Bloomington 2010, p. 19.
2. ↑ Ludwig W. Adamec : Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan , 4th edition, 2012, p. 400.
3. ↑ Peter Thomsen: The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the failiures of Great Powers , S. 81st
4. ^ Adamec: Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan , p. 172 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Mahmud Tarzi	Afghan Foreign Minister 1927	Mohammad Wali Darwazi
Abdul Hadi Dawi	Afghan ambassador in Berlin 1929–1932	Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan