List of Indian ambassadors in Afghanistan
The Indian ambassador resides in Shahr-e-Arad, Kabul
| Appointed / Accredited | Surname | Remarks | appointed during the reign of | accredited during government | Leave post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 1948 | Lala Rup Chand | Jawaharlal Nehru | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1952 | Bhagwat Dayalb | Jawaharlal Nehru | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1957 | Sundar Narain Haksar | (* December 4, 1909; † 1985) 1960 Ambassador to Rome | Jawaharlal Nehru | Mohammed Sahir Shah | |
| 1960 | Jagan Nath Dhamija | Jawaharlal Nehru | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1964 | Pran Nath Thapar | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1967 | Ashok Nanalal Mehta | Indira Gandhi | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1971 | Kohensalan L. Mehta | Indira Gandhi | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1974 | Shri KRP Singh | Indira Gandhi | Mohammed Sahir Shah | ||
| 1977 | Shailendra Kumar Singh | Morarji Desai | Mohammed Sahir Shah | 1979 | |
| 2001 | Gautam Mukhopadhaya | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Burhanuddin Rabbani | ||
| 2006 | Rakesh Sood | Manmohan Singh | Hamid Karzai | ||
| 2008 | Jayant Prasad | Manmohan Singh | Hamid Karzai |
Individual notes
- ^ Wing commander Lala Rup Chand (born June 15, 1900), Former Royal Air Force officer Barrister , deputy for the Punjab in the Rajya Sabha , ambassador to Turkey
- ↑ Bhagwat Dayalb (born January 26, 1918 in Berr in the Rohtak District in Haryana ) son of Mu-rari Lai and Gulabdevi, married to Savitri Devi three children 1948: Indian envoy in Bangkok
- ↑ Jagan Nath Dhamija, 1967 Ambassador in Prague
- ↑ General Pran Nath Thapar (born May 8, 1906), May 8, 1961 to November 19, 1962: Chief of Staff
- ↑ Ashok Nanalal Mehta replaced Sekheripuram Gopalakrishnan Ramachandran as Indian High Commissioner in Nigeria in 1971.
- ↑ Ludwig W. Adamec : First supplement to the Who's who of Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan . Volume 1, p. 19