Shaida Mohammad Abdali (Pashto: شیدا محمد ابدالی, born on 8 November 1978 in Kandahar) is the Afghan Ambassador to Japan.

Ambassador Abdali provided the President with policy and oversight advice on national security issues,[3] and was as such active in Afghan politics.

[6] He had been the Ambassador-designate in Tokyo without presenting his letter of credence for around four months because of the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan, especially the Japanese government has placed its capital, which includes the Imperial Palace, under a state of emergency due to COVID-19 on April 25.

[7] Abdali eventually presented his letter of credence to Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace on May 27.

[8] Despite the Fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, Tokyo still hosts Abdali as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan.