Haji Mohammad Yousuf Wafa (Pashto: حاجي محمد یوسف وفا) is an Afghan Taliban leader who is currently serving as the provincial governor of Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province.
[4] Wafa was named to be among the Kandahari hardliner faction along with Akhundzada, Hajj minister Nur Muhammad Saqib, Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, and Director of Science Farid.
[9] In September 2021, Wafa was photographed joining a group of municipal staff to sweep the streets of Kandahar[10] and, in the same month, reportedly gathered the city's begging women to provide them food and a monetary stipend.
[18][19] While governor, Wafa met with the president of the ICRC and diplomats from six other nations in December 2023 where he was quoted as saying "Despite the fact that security prevails in Afghanistan, corruption has been eliminated and the fight against narcotics has been carried out, the world still does not want to interact with the Islamic Emirate."
[21] In April 2024, Wafa joined Uzbek deputy foreign minister Erkin Khamraev to oversee the delivery of 169 tonnes of food aid from Uzbekistan to alleviate the high rates of starvation in Afghanistan.
During Wafa's tenure as Balkh provincial governor, and only days after his predecessor's assassination by ISIS–K, the group bombed an Iranian (Shia) center in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, killing 4 and wounding 16 others.