Educated in England, Mohib was deputy chief of staff to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and simultaneously Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States from 2014 to 2018.

The family returned home after the end of the Soviet invasion, but fled once more to Pakistan after a renewed civil war broke out.

He attended community college and then Brunel University, earning a degree in computer systems engineering,[1] with honors.

[7] He founded the think tank "Discourse Afghanistan" as part of APN, and he established community service programming to serve special needs orphans in Kabul and to honor Afghan women's achievements.

[8] During his tenure as the Deputy Chief of Staff to President Ghani, where he Coordinated and oversaw the office of the spokesperson, correspondence and diplomatic communications, protocol and petitions, as well as the Presidential Secretariat.

[9] Mohib led Afghanistan's presidential negotiating team for several intergovernmental cooperation agreements and the development of its "Realizing Self-Reliance'" reform strategy.

[10] Mohib formally presented his credentials as Afghan Ambassador to the United States to U.S. President Barack Obama in September 2015.

At the same time, Ghani declined to accept offers of resignation submitted by Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami, Interior Minister Wais Barmak, and National Directorate of Security chief Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, over policy differences; Ghani asked the trio to remain in office.

[16] Over the Eid holidays in May 2020, Mohib visited the gravesite of Mohammad Najibullah in the Melan graveyard in Gardez, eastern province of Paktia.

He remains a divisive and polarizing figure in Afghanistan, reviled by some Afghans due to his association with the Soviet invasion, as well as his brutality as head of the Soviet-supported Afghan secret police, but recalled favorably by some Pashtun nationalists who regarded Najibullah as a patriot and promoter of national reconciliation.

[20] As national security adviser, Mohib conveyed the Ghani administration's frustration and anger at the Trump administration's choice to cut out the Afghan government from direct U.S.-Taliban peace negotiations,[23] a reversal of the prior longstanding U.S. policy of refusing to negotiate with the Taliban without the participation of the Afghan government.

[21] In a March 2019 conference in Washington, D.C., Mohib accused the U.S. "delegitimizing" the Afghan government in Kabul by excluding it from the peace talks in Doha, in which Khalilzad was the leading U.S.

[23][21][22][24] Mohib accused Khalilzad, who unsuccessfully ran for president of Afghanistan in 2009 and 2014, of seeking to become a "viceroy" and being motivated by personal political ambition.

[21] In addition to angering the U.S., Mohib's comments were criticized by some of the Ghani administration's political rivals, such as Haneef Atmar and Shaida Mohammad Abdali.

In the agreement, the Taliban agreed to "start intra-Afghan negotiations" and the U.S. pledged to withdraw military combat forces by May 2021.

Mohib said that: "We expect that in the next couple of years we will be fully self-reliant, capable of independently carrying out our security responsibilities, even if there was no peace with the Taliban.

"[31] In the summer of 2021, the Taliban seized control of much of the country, and the new U.S. Biden administration decided to continue with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Under siege, Dostum fled to Uzbekistan, as did Ata Mohammad Noor, a powerful and independent leader in the north.

Fearing a leak to the Taliban or the Islamic State, Wilson did not tell Ghani about the evacuation or the U.S. determination that the Green Zone was no longer secure.

[37] The following month, Mohib confirmed in a Face the Nation interview that while being hosted by the government of the United Arab Emirates, he and other Ghani officials in exile respected the UAE's policy that "they don't want any political activity.