Hekmat Karzai

Who is Hekmat Karzai?

Hekmat Karzai is a citizen of Afghanistan who is a former academic, former diplomat, and is the founder and director of Afghanistan's Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies. He is a former RMS Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore. He is currently a senior fellow at the EastWest Institute.

Afghanistan's new President Hamid Karzai appointed Hekmat Karzai Head of Afghanistan's Washington Embassy's Political Department in May 2002.

Hekmat Karzai is a cousin of President Hamid Karzai. His father, Khalil Lula Karzai, was allegedly killed by another relative Yar Mohammad Karzai in Pakistan in the early eighties. He had an elder brother named Hashmat Karzai, who died 29 July 2014 by virtue of a suicide attack.