# List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel

The Afghan Transitional Administration was established in June and July 2002. It was 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