Salahuddin Rabbani

Salahuddin Rabbani (born 10 May 1971) is an Afghan diplomat and politician who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from February 2015 to October 2019. He is also the owner of the Noor television network.

He was the Afghan ambassador to Turkey in 2011-2012. In April 2012, it was announced that he was to chair the Afghan High Peace Council in its negotiations with the Taliban. Salahuddin's father was former Afghan High Peace Council chairman and Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani. His father was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in 2011.

He received an undergraduate degree in management and marketing from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia He was ambassador from 1 January 2011 until 14 April 2012.

Afghan High Peace Council After he was appointed to the role in March 2012,

Rabbani resigned on 23 October 2019, accusing Ghani of sidelining him and creating parallel structures that impeded the functioning of legitimate government institutions. Ghani appointed Idrees Zaman as the acting foreign minister to replace Rabbani on 30 October.

Television station

Rabbani owns Noor TV, a television network broadcasting out of Kabul. The Taliban government banned this channel in 2024.