{"id":21676,"date":"2026-06-04T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21676"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:39:18","slug":"afghan-embassy-in-kuwait-handed-over-to-islamic-emirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/06\/04\/afghan-embassy-in-kuwait-handed-over-to-islamic-emirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Embassy in Kuwait handed over to Islamic Emirate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: According to sources, the Afghan Embassy in Kuwait has been handed over to representatives of the Islamic Emirate, and Shafiq Khatib has been appointed as the acting head of the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources said that Khatib previously served as Director of Consular Affairs and Director of Border Affairs at Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither the Afghan Foreign Ministry nor the Kuwaiti government has officially announced the development. However, sources familiar with the matter have confirmed the transfer of the embassy and the appointment of the new acting envoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move comes as a number of Afghanistan\u2019s diplomatic missions and political representations abroad have, in recent years, been transferred to officials appointed by the Islamic Emirate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: According to sources, the Afghan Embassy in Kuwait has been handed over to representatives of the Islamic Emirate, and Shafiq Khatib has been appointed as the acting head of the mission. Sources said that Khatib previously served as Director of Consular Affairs and Director of Border Affairs at Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21678,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions\/21678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}