Mohammad Yusuf (politician)

For other people with similar names, see Mohammad Yousuf, Mohammad Yusuf Khan, and Yousaf Khan.

Dr. Mohammad Yusuf (January 21, 1917 – January 23, 1998) was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Afghanistan from March 10, 1963, to November 2, 1965. He was a technocrat who served under the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah, Dr. Mohammad Yusuf was born into a Qizilbash family in Chindawol, Kabul.^[2] He is considered the first Afghan prime minister to not be part of the royal family. He resigned on October 29, 1965.

Mohammad Yusuf
Prime Minister of Afghanistan
In office 10 March 1963 – 2 November 1965
Monarch	Mohammed Zahir Shah
Preceded by	Mohammed Daoud Khan
Succeeded by	Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal
Personal details
Born	(1917-01-21)January 21, 1917[1] Kabul, Emirate of Afghanistan
Died	January 23, 1998(1998-01-23) (aged 81) Germany
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Göttingen

Yusuf's predecessor, Mohammed Daoud Khan, had made him Minister of Mines and Industries in 1953, a position in which he would serve for 10 years (prior to which he had been Deputy Minister of Education from 1949 to 1953). After serving as prime minister, he was appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union, but left this post in 1973 following Daoud Khan's coup. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, he went into exile in Germany, where he lived until his death.^[3] His family moved to the west during the fall of the Communist Regime in Afghanistan, to the United States.

Before his political career, Yusuf had a tenure as a professor at Kabul University for over three decades, starting in 1949.^{[citation needed]}