List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel

Updated on Jan 03, 2024

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The Afghan Transitional Administration was established in June and July 2002. It has been replaced with the election of a permanent government in 2004.

President and Chairman

Hamid Karzai

Vice Presidents

Hedayat Arsala

Mohammad Qasim Fahim

Abdul Karim Khalili

Nematullah Shahrani

Security Advisors

Yunus Qanuni

Zalmay Rassoul

Ministers

Sayed Hussein Anwari (Agriculture)

Mir Wais Saddiq (Son of Ismail Khan) (Air Transport/Tourism)

Arif Nurzai (Border Affairs)

Sayed Mustafa Kazemi (Commerce)

Masum Stanakzai (Communication)

Mohammad Qasim Fahim (Defense)

Abdul Rashid Dostum (Deputy Defense)

Muhammad Yunus Qanuni (Education)

Yusuf Nooristani (Environment) (U.S. citizen)

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (Finance) (U.S. citizen)

Abdullah (Foreign Affairs)

Mohammad Amin Naziryar (Hajj and Waqf)

Dr. Soheila Siddiqi (Health)

Sharif Fayez (Higher Education) (U.S. citizen)

Sayed Makhdoom Raheen (Information/Culture) (Raheen is a U.S. citizen)

Ali Ahmad Jalali (Interior) (since Jan. 2003) (U.S. citizen)

Ahmed Yusuf Nuristani (Irrigation/Environment)

Abdul Rahim Karimi (Justice)

Noor Mohammad Qarqin (Labor/Social Affairs)

Mohammad Alim Razm (Light Industries)

Abdullah Wardak (Martyrs and Disabled)

Juma Muhammad Muhammadi (Mines and Industries) (died in plane crash, February 24, 2003)

Mohammad Mohaqeq (Planning)

Mohammad Amin Farhang (Reconstruction) (German citizen)

Inayatulah Nazeri (Refugees)

Hanif Atmar (Rural Development)

Said Mohammad Ali Jawid (Transportation)

Yusuf Pashtun until August 16, 2003 (Urban Planning)

Ahmed Shaker Kargar (Water and Electricity)

Habiba Sarobi (Women's Affairs)

Mahbooba Hoquqmal (State or Advisor-Minister for Women's Affairs)

Gul Agha Sherzai after August 16, 2003 (Urban Affairs)

Head of Supreme Court

Fazl Hadi Shinwari

Governors

Ghazni province: Qari Baba

Herat province: Ismail Khan until August 13, 2003

Kabul province: Taj Mohammad Mujaahid

Kandahar province: Gul Agha Sherzai until August 16, 2003; then Yusuf Pashtun

Khost province: Hakim Taniwal (appointed by Karzai in April 2002)

Kunar province: Sayyid Yusuf

Nangarhar province: Gul Agha Sherzai replacing Hajji Din Muhammad (brother of late Hajji Qadir)

Nimruz province: Abdul Karim Brahoui

Paktia province: Taj Mohammad Wardak (appointed by Karzai in mid-February 2002)

Zabul province: Hamidullah Tokhi until August, 2003; then Hafizullah Khan

Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi (governor of the Afghan Central Bank)

Jawzjan Sayeed Ahmad Shah

Afghan ambassadors and envoys

To Australia: Mahmoud Saikal

To Canada: Omar Samad, was Jalil Jamili

To People's Republic of China: Rahi Barlas

To Egypt: Abdul Ghafar Karzai

To France: Dr. Zalmai Haquani

To Germany: Hamidullah Nasir Zia

To India: Massoud Khalili

To Iran: Dr. Ahmad Moshahed

To Italy: Mostapha Zair

To Japan: Anwar Akbari

To Pakistan: Nangyalai Tarzi

To Russia: Ahmad Zia Massoud (Brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud)

To Saudi Arabia: Anwar Neko

To Tajikistan: Mohammad Dawod Panjshiri

To Turkmenistan: Mohammad Nazir Qasimi

To United Arab Emirates: Mr. Rashuddin

To United Kingdom: Ahmad Wali Massoud

To United Nations New York City: Dr. Rawan Farhadi

To United Nations Geneva: Shams Ul-Zakir Kazimi

To United States: Ishaq Shahryar; Chargé d' Affaires: Haroun Amin

To Uzbekistan: Abdul Samad

Foreign ambassadors and chargés d'affaires in Kabul

People's Republic of China: Sun Yuxi

European Union: Francesc Vendrell

Germany: Rainer Eberle

Pakistan: Rustam Shah Mohmand

Saudi Arabia: Abdullah Fahd al-Kahlani

Switzerland: Christian Dunant (in Islamabad)

United Nations: Lakhdar Brahimi

United States: Robert Finn

References

List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel Wikipedia

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