--- description: Ambassador Tariq Ali Bakhiet is the Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the second-largest intergovernmental body in the world; he was previously a diplomat at the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations and at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tariq Ali Bakhiet ## Tariq Ali Bakhiet Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ambassador Tariq Ali Bakhiet is the Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the second-largest intergovernmental body in the world; he was previously a diplomat at the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations and at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ## Tariq Ali Bakhiet Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jul 16, 2018 ### [The Taliban Has Used Islam as a Weapon of War. This Is How Afghanistan Can Use It for Peace](https://time.com/5339926/afghanistan-war-islam-peace/) 'It is clear that soldiers cannot create a civil society' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/tariq-ali-bakhiet/","name":"Tariq Ali Bakhiet"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/tariq-ali-bakhiet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/tariq-ali-bakhiet/"},"name":"Tariq Ali Bakhiet","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ambassador Tariq Ali Bakhiet is the Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the second-largest intergovernmental body in the world; he was previously a diplomat at the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations and at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.","url":"https://time.com/author/tariq-ali-bakhiet/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```