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The Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Pashto: د ترانسپورټ او ملکي هوايي چلند وزارت) is the Afghan Government Ministry in charge of the management of air and ground transportation, operation of airports and the national airline, as well as numerous other state owned enterprises engaged in the transport business. As of 2013 the minister was Daoud Ali Najafi.
It is headquartered in Ansari Watt, Kabul.
When, after the fall of the Taliban, the Bonn Conference installed an interim government for Afghanistan, the government had one minister for Transport and one minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism. In 2004, when after the Presidential Election the newly elected President Hamid Karzai his cabinet formed, the post of minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism was abolished. The minister of Transport became responsible for Civil Aviation and the Minister of Information and Culture became responsible for Tourism.
Control of Afghan airspace, nominally under the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority, part of the ministry, is since an agreement was signed in 2001 maintained by the US, impugning on Afghan sovereignty.