Rangin Dadfar Spanta
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Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta (born 1954 in Herat) is the foreign minister of Afghanistan. Spanta's primary focus in his short tenure has been on Afghanistan's relationship with Pakistan, and in particular the insecure border shared by the two countries.
He was appointed to that position by Hamid Karzai during a cabinet reshuffle on March 21, 2006 and approved by the 249-seat lower house on April 20, 2006. He was previously the Senior Advisor on International Affairs to President Hamid Karzai. Before returning to Afghanistan, he spent many years as a scholar and assistant professor of political science at RWTH University in Aachen, Germany, at which time he also served as spokesperson for the Alliance for Democracy in Afghanistan, and was active in the German Green Party.
An ethnic Tajik, Spanta was an ex-patriate for many years as he fled during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During his exile, he was an assistant Professor at Aachen University in Germany, and then taught briefly at the University of Kabul upon the fall of the Taliban.[1]
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