Farhâdi studied at the Institut d'études politiques in Paris, France, achieving an MA degree in 1952.
Following that, he was appointed Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C., United States.
From 1964 till 1968, he served as Director-General for Political Affairs at the ministry and then he was Deputy Foreign Minister for 5 years.
[1] After the Soviet Invasion in 1979, Farhadi spent two years in Pol-e Charkhi jail as a political prisoner.
Since 1993, Farhâdi has served as Vice Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
[3] After his period as diplomat, with American scholar Ibrahim Gamard, he translated into English all the quatrains of the Sufi Tajik poet Maulana Jalal ad-Din Rumi.
[5] Farhadi was in favour of a government composed of all of Afghanistan's ethnic communities, including Uzbeks, Tajiks, Hazaras, Baluchs and Pashtuns,[3] but rejected the idea of US Secretary of State Colin Powell to include moderate Taliban members in the next government.