Mohammad Anwar Anwarzai is the former Head of United Nations Department at the Afghan Foreign Ministry and the former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Iraq and Australia.

He graduated from Nejat (Amani) High School in 1954 and earned his degree from Law Faculty of Kabul University in 1959. In 1970 he completed his education in International Relations and International Law at Oxford University in London, England, at a special program designed for diplomats of developing countries.

He started his career as a civil servant in 1960 and worked in various sections of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1964 to 1969 Anwarzai worked as Second Secretary directly under the supervision of the late Abdul Rahman Pazhwak. From 1973 to 1976 Anwarzai served as the first Secretary in the Afghanistan Embassy in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. From 1976-1978 he served as the Head of the Mission as Charged d" Affair in Tripoli, Libya.