Ajmal Shams

Ajmal Shams is an Afghan politician and former civil engineer. Shams has been president of the Afghan Social Democratic Party since October 2005. He served as Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing in the Afghan Government since December 2016 till June 2018. He speaks Pashto, Persian, English and Urdu.

He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with Project Management Institute (PMI) and a Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Kentucky, USA.

Shams is a regular columnist in the Middle East's reputed English daily newspaper Arab News mainly writing on political, developmental and economic issues of Afghanistan. He also contributes opinion articles for various other international media outlets including Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, The National Interest, Gulf News, Global Times (China), Korea Times and others.