Ishaq Shahryar

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Ishaq Shahryar (born 1936) is the Afghan ambassador to the United States.

Shahryar came to the United States in 1956 to study, worked as a solar engineer for aerospace companies, and later founded and ran two solar-energy companies in the Los Angeles area. He became a U.S. citizen but had to revoke that citizenship to take the ambassadorship.

A longtime associate of former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah, Shahryar represents the government of Hamid Karzai, who became Afghanistan's new president in the summer of 2002.

He also has two children: a daughter, Jahan and a son, Alexander.

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