2. Previous Functions:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Minister for Fifth Political Division (20070423,2008)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Director General Amerika's Affairs (20090611)
Ambassador to Qatar Doha (20080908, 20091122, posting terminated 20130131)

3. Biodata:
Khaled Ahmad Zekriya Zekria Zakaria was born 1968 in Afghanistan. He left Afghanistan and settled in San Diego, Cal., USA. Later he returned to Afghanistan to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in different assignments.

Afghanistan has recalled Ambassador Zakaria  from Qatar for "consultations," the Afghan foreign ministry announced, amid media reports over the opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state.(20111214) The AFP quoted a high ranking Afghan government official, who spoke to the news agency anonymously, saying that the Afghan government was aware that Qatar had held talks with the US and Germany on allowing a Taliban office to open, and supported the move as a means of facilitating the peace process. But he said: "The ambassador has been recalled as a protest over why they did not allow the Afghan government into these talks while there are official diplomatic relations between the two countries." He added that the opening of such an office "should not be seen as a concession" to the Taliban, the AFP reported.

Afghan ambassador Khaled Zekriya returned to Doha, Qatar and  stressed his four-month absence from Qatar did not represent a severance of diplomatic ties. (20120429)