Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan
Composition of the Transitional Administration
Table:
Transitional Afghan Ministers[7]

Transitional
Authority
Position
Name
Ethnicity
Incumbent/New

President
Hamid Karzai
Pashtun
Incumbent (before chairman)

Vice-President and
Defense Minister
Mohammed Fahim
Tajik
Incumbent

Vice-President
Karim Khalili
Hazara
New

Vice-President
Hedayat Amin Arsala
Pashtun
New (was Finance Minister)

Vice-President and
Public Works Minister
Abdul Qadir
Abdul Ali
Pashtun

New (was Urban Affairs Minister) (killed on July 6, 2002)
New (Ali only took over the Public Works portfolio after July 6, 2002

Vice-President and
head of the Afghan Constitution Commission
Nematullah Shahrani
Uzbek
New

Special Advisor on Security and
Education Minister
Yunus Qanooni
Tajik
Incumbent (Special Advisor on Security is new post)

Foreign Minister
Abdullah Abdullah
Tajik
Incumbent

Finance Minister
Ashraf Ghani
Pashtun
New

Interior Minister
Taj Mohammed Wardak
Ali Ahmad Jalali
Pashtun
Pashtun
New
New (Jalali replaced Wardak in Januari 2003)

Planning Minister
Mohammed Mohaqqeq
Hazara
Incumbent (but lost role as vice-chair)

Communications Minister
Masoom Stanakzai
Pashtun
New

Borders Minister
Arif Nurzai
Pashtun
New (was Small Industries Minister)

Refugees Minister
Intayatullah Nazeri
Tajik
Incumbent

Mines Minister
Juma Muhammad Muhammadi
Pashtun
New

Light Industries Minister
Mohammed Alim Razm
Uzbek
Incumbent

Health Minister
Sohaila Siddiqi
Pashtun
Incumbent

Commerce Minister
Sayed Mustafa Kasemi
Shiite Muslim
Incumbent

Agriculture Minister
Sayed Hussain Anwari
Hazara
Incumbent

Justice Minister
Abbas Karimi
Uzbek
Incumbent

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The president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the head of state and head of government of Afghanistan . The incumbent office holder is Ashraf Ghani . Before the office of the president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was created in 2004 , Afghanistan has been an Islamic republic between 1973 and 1992 and from 2001 onward . Before 1973 , it was a monarchy . Between 1992 and 2001 , during the civil war , the country was recognized as the Islamic State of Afghanistan , and later the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan .
Hamid Karzai /ˈhæmɪd ˈkɑːrzaɪ/ ( Pashto/Dari : حامد کرزی ; born 24 December 1957 ) is an Afghan politician who was the President of Afghanistan from 22 December 2001 to 29 September 2014 , originally as an interim leader and then as President for almost ten years , from 7 December 2004 to 2014 . He comes from a politically active family ; Karzai 's father , uncle and grandfather were all active in Afghan politics and government . Karzai and his father before him , Abdul Ahad Karzai , were each head of the Popalzai tribe of the Durrani tribal confederation . In the 1980s Karzai was active as a fundraiser for the mujahideen who were fighting to expel Soviet Army troops during the Soviet-Afghan War ( 1979-1989 ) . After the Soviet withdrawal , the Islamic State of Afghanistan was established and then it was replaced in 1996 when the Taliban came to power and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan . In July 1999 Karzai 's father was assassinated and Karzai succeeded him as head of the Popalzai tribe . In October 2001 the US invasion of Afghanistan began and Karzai became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 . During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany , Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six-month term as Chairman of the Interim Administration . He was then chosen for a two-year term as Interim President during the 2002 loya jirga ( grand assembly ) that was held in Kabul , Afghanistan . After the 2004 presidential election , Karzai was declared the winner and became President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan . He won a second five-year term in the 2009 presidential election ; this term ended in September 2014 .
The Pashtuns ( /ˈpʌʃˌtʊn/ , /ˈpɑːʃˌtʊn/ or /ˈpæʃˌtuːn/ ; Pashto : پښتانه , Pax̌tānə ) , also Pukhtuns or Pushtuns , historically known as ethnic Afghans [ a ] or Pathans , [ b ] are an Iranic ethnic group native to South and Central Asia , who share a common history and culture . They primarily live in Afghanistan and Pakistan . A substantial majority of ethnic Pashtuns share Pashto - an Eastern Iranic language in the Indo-European language family - as the native language . Globally , the Pashtuns are estimated to number around 50 million , but an accurate count remains elusive due to the lack of an official census in Afghanistan since 1979 . The majority of the Pashtuns live in the region regarded as Pashtunistan , which has been split between two countries since the Durand Line border was formed after the Second Anglo-Afghan War . The Pashtuns are a significant minority group in Pakistan , where they constitute the second-largest ethnic group or about 15 percent of the population . Smaller , but still significant Pashtun diaspora communities exist in Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan , especially in the cities of Karachi and Lahore , and in the Rohilkhand region of Uttar Pradesh , India . A recent Pashtun diaspora has also developed in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf , primarily in the United Arab Emirates . As the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan ( anywhere between 42 and 60 percent of the population ) , Pashtuns have been the dominant ethno-linguistic group for over 300 years . During the Delhi Sultanate era , the 15th-16th century Lodi dynasty briefly replaced the preexisting rulers in North India until Babur completely deposed the Lodi dynasty . Other Pashtuns fought the Safavids and Mughals before obtaining an independent state in the early 18th century , which began with a successful revolution by Mirwais Hotak followed by conquests of Ahmad Shah Durrani . The Barakzai dynasty played a vital role during the Great Game from the 19th century to the 20th century as they were caught between the imperialist designs of the British and Russian empires .
The Afghan Ministry of Defense ( Pashto : د افغانستان ملی دفاع وزارت ) is an organ of the Government of Afghanistan , overseeing the Afghan Armed Forces . Its headquarters is located in Kabul . The defense minister is nominated by the President of Afghanistan and the National Assembly makes the final approval . One of the functions of the Defense Ministry is the continuance of disarming insurgent groups through programmes such as the Afghan New Beginnings Programme . These militant groups coalesced from warlords and former army personnel after the collapse of the Najibullah government in 1992 .
Mohammad Qasim Fahim ( Pashto/Dari : محمد فهیم ) , also known as Marshal Fahim ; 1957 - 9 March 2014 ) was a politician in Afghanistan who served as Vice President from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death . Between September 2001 and December 2004 , he also served as Defense Minister under the Afghan Transitional Administration . As military commander of the Northern Alliance , Fahim captured the Afghan capital Kabul in the fall of 2001 from the Taliban government . In 2004 , President Hamid Karzai provided Fahim the honorary title Marshal and a year later , he became member of the House of Elders . He later became a recipient of the Ahmad Shah Baba Medal . Fahim was a member of Afghanistan 's Tajik ethnic group . He was affiliated with the Jamiat Islami ( Shura-e Nazar ) party of Afghanistan .
Tajiks ( Persian : تاجيک : Tājīk , Tajik : Тоҷик ) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Afghanistan , Tajikistan , and Uzbekistan . Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan , and the second largest in Afghanistan which constitutes over half of the global Tajik population . They speak varieties of Persian , a Western Iranian language . In Tajikistan , since the 1939 Soviet census , its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks . In China , the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups , the Tajiks of Xinjiang , who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages . In Afghanistan , the Pamiris are counted as a separate ethnic group . As a self-designation , the literary New Persian term Tajik , which originally had some previous pejorative usage as a label for eastern Persians or Iranians , has become acceptable during the last several decades , particularly as a result of Soviet administration in Central Asia . Alternative names for the Tajiks are Eastern Persian , Fārsīwān ( Persian-speaker ) , and Dīhgān ( cf . Tajik : Деҳқон ) which translates to farmer or settled villager , in a wider sense settled in contrast to nomadic and was later used to describe a class of land-owning magnates as Persian of noble blood in contrast to Arabs , Turks and Romans during the Sassanid and early Islamic period .
Karim Khalili ( Persian : کریم خلیلی ) is the current chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council , who served as Vice President of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014 , in the administration of President Hamid Karzai . Khalili was appointed first time as Vice President in 2002 and was elected as running mate of Hamid Karzai in 2004 . Since 1989 he has been one of the main leaders of the Wahdat political party of Hazara .
The Hazaras ( Persian : هزاره ; Hazaragi : آزره ) are an ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan . They speak the Hazaragi variant of Persian , one of the two official languages of Afghanistan . They are the third-largest ethnic group in Afghanistan , also making up a significant minority group in the neighboring Pakistan , with a population of between 650,000 and 900,000 , largely living in the region of Quetta .
Hedayat Amin Arsala ( Pashto : هدايت امين ارسلا ) ( born January 12 , 1942 ) , is an economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan . Mr. Arsala is a former Vice President of Afghanistan , Finance Minister and Foreign Minister and until October 2013 was the Senior Minister of the Republic of Afghanistan , appointed by the President Hamid Karzai . He is an ethnic Pashtun .
Haji Abdul Qadeer ( Pashto : حاجی عبدالقدیر ; c. 1951 - July 6 , 2002 ) was a Pashtun leader in Afghanistan . Qadeer was a prominent member of the Northern Alliance and opposed the Taliban . He served as the head of Eastern Afghanistan Shura and later Vice President of Afghanistan and Minister of Public Works in the administration of Hamid Karzai from 19 June 2002 until his assassination on 6 July 2002 . Qadeer belonged to the influential Pashtun Arsala family from Nangarhar province of Afghanistan . His brother was the anti-Soviet and Northern Alliance leader Abdul Haq , who was executed in late 2001 by the Taliban . From 1992 to 1996 , before the Taliban gained power , Abdul Qadeer was the governor of Nangahar province .
The Afghan Constitution Commission ( or Afghan Constitutional Commission ) was established October 5 , 2002 as required by the Bonn Agreement , which stipulated that a new Afghan constitution be adopted by a loya jirga . The loya jirga was required to convene within eighteen months of the establishment of Afghan Transitional Administration , which was established by the Emergency Loya Jirga in June 2002 . After some delay , the proposed Afghan Constitution was presented to President Hamid Karzai on November 3 , 2003 . A loya jirga began December 14 , 2003 ( four days after schedule ) in Kabul and was endorsed January 4 , 2004 .
Nematullah Shahrani ( born 1941 ) is a prominent Afghan scholar . He was one of four Vice Presidents of the Afghan Transitional Administration from 2002 to 2004 . Shahrani also headed of the Afghan Constitution Commission . He has written more than 30 books and several hundred academic articles . He belongs to an academic family that is known in Afghanistan as the family of scholars . He studied at Kabul University , Al-Azhar University ( Cairo ) and The George Washington University ( U.S. ) . From Badakhshan Province in northern Afghanistan , Shahrani is ethnically Uzbek . Although he was one of the ideological figures behind the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan , he was never involved in any sectarian , party and other ethnic conflicts in Afghanistan . For that he earned the nickname of Mr. Clean . Currently some of his other family members are teaching at academic institutions in the United States ( such as Indiana University Bloomington ) and the United Kingdom .
The Uzbeks ( Uzbek : Oʻzbek , Ўзбек , اوزبک , plural : Oʻzbeklar , Ўзбеклар , اوزبکلر ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Uzbekistan and wider Central Asia , being the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area . They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan but are also found as a minority group in Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Turkmenistan , Russia and China . Uzbek diaspora communities also exist in Turkey , Saudi Arabia , and Pakistan .
The Afghan Ministry of Education ( Pashto : وزارت معارف افغانستان ) is responsible for policy formulation , the organization and supervision of education in Afghanistan . Its headquarters is located in Kabul . The current Education Minister is Assadullah Hanif Balkhi . The Ministry of Education provides a semi-annual report to inform the public of advancements in Afghanistan 's education sector .
Younus Qanooni ( Dari : یونس قانونی , born on 10 May 1957 in Panjshir Valley ) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan . An ethnic Tajik , Qanooni is the leader of the Afghanistan e Naween ( New Afghanistan ) political party and former Speaker of the House of the People ( the lower house of parliament or Wolesi Jirga ) .
The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MFA ) ( Persian : وزارت خارجه افغانستان Pashto : د افغانستان د بهرنیو چارو وزارت ) is the ministry responsible for managing the Foreign relations of Afghanistan .
Abdullah Abdullah ( Dari/Pashto : عبدالله عبدالله , born 5 September 1960 ) is an Afghan politician , served as Chief Executive of the Unity Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan between Sep 2014 and Feb 2020 . Ashraf Ghani was declared the winner with 50.64% in 2019 elections , thus ending the tenure of Unity Government . From October 2001 to April 2005 , he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs . Prior to that he was a senior member of the Northern Alliance working as an adviser to Ahmad Shah Massoud . He also worked as a medical doctor during the late 1990s . Abdullah ran against President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghan presidential election , coming in second place with 30.5% of the total votes . In 2010 , he created the Coalition for Change and Hope ( now the National Coalition of Afghanistan ) , which is one of the leading democratic opposition movements in Afghanistan . In 2011 , the coalition was transformed into the National Coalition of Afghanistan . He ran again in the 2014 presidential election and went to the second round with 45% the total vote . His closest rival , Ashraf Ghani , had secured 35% of the total vote . Due to signs of fraud , the results of the second round were heavily contested and led to a deadlock . Despite the controversy regarding the results of the second round of elections , the final certified result by the Independent election commission of Afghanistan shows that Ashraf Ghani received 55.3% of the votes while Abdullah Abdullah secured 44.7% of the vote .
The Ministry of Finance of Afghanistan is responsible for the implementation and execution of the budget , collection of taxes , organization , and control of public expenses in Afghanistan ; it also controls the management of the Custom Affairs . The Ministry of Finance provides a quarterly report to inform the public of advancements in Afghanistan 's financial sector .
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai ( Pashto : محمد اشرف غني احمدۍ , Dari : محمد اشرف غني احمدزی ; born 19 May 1949 ) is an Afghan politician serving as the President of Afghanistan , elected on 21 September 2014 . An anthropologist by education , he previously served as Minister of Finance and the Chancellor of Kabul University . Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 , Ghani was a professor of anthropology at numerous institutions ( mostly Johns Hopkins University ) , and later started working with the World Bank . As the Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004 , he led Afghanistan 's attempted economic recovery after the collapse of the Taliban government . He is the co-founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness , an organization set up in 2005 to improve the ability of states to serve their citizens . In 2005 he gave a TED talk , in which he discussed how to rebuild a broken state such as Afghanistan . He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor , an independent initiative hosted by the United Nations Development Programme . In 2013 he was ranked 50th in an online poll to name the world 's top 100 intellectuals conducted by Foreign Policy magazine and second in a similar poll run by Prospect magazine . An independent politician , Ghani came in fourth in the 2009 presidential election , behind Hamid Karzai , Abdullah Abdullah , and Ramazan Bashardost . In the first round of the 2014 presidential election , Ghani secured 35% of the vote , second to Abdullah who secured 45% of the votes cast . However , in the second round of 2014 presidential election Ghani secured around 55.3% of the votes while Abdullah secured around 44.7% of the votes cast . As a result , chaos ensued and United States had to intervene to form unity government in Afghanistan .
The Ministry of Interior Affairs ( Pashto : د افغانستان د کورنیو چارو وزارت ) is headquartered in Kabul , Afghanistan , and is responsible for law enforcement in Afghanistan , civil order and fighting crime . It maintains the Afghan National Police , Afghan Special Narcotics Force , Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan , and the Afghan Public Protection Force . It also supervises the General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Centers ( GDPDC ) .
Taj Mohammad Wardak is an Afghan politician , from the Pashtun ethnic group . He spent some of the period of the Taliban 's administration in the United States of America , and became an American citizen .
Ali Ahmad Jalali ( Dari : علی احمد جلالی , born 1940 ) is a former Afghan ambassador to Germany . He is a former Interior Minister of Afghanistan from January 2003 to September 2005 and since October 2005 also serves as a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies ( NESA ) at the National Defense University in Washington , D.C .
Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq ( Dari : محمد محقق ) , born 26 July 1955 in Balkh , is a current politician in Afghanistan , serving as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament . He is also the founder and chairman of the People 's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan . During the 1980s , he served with the mujahideen rebel forces fighting against the Soviet-backed Afghan government . After the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989 , Mohaqiq was appointed as the leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat for northern Afghanistan .
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ( MCIT ) is an organ of the government of Afghanistan . Current communications minister is Shahzad Aryobee . The Ministry was subjected to a suicide attack in 2019 . The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology provides an annual report to inform the public of advancements in Afghanistan 's technological sector . At the end of 2001 , there were an estimated 35,000 phones working in all of Afghanistan serving a population of 27 million , one of the lowest teledesities in the world . Calls could only be completed over satellite facilities and only among Afghanistan 's six major urban areas . The Ministry of Communications with international consulting aid developed a modern telecommunications and Internet sector policy published in October 2002 . That policy framework is credited with laying the foundation for transparent , private sector-led competition . As of November 2009 , there are more than 10.4 million mobile subscribers , a 300-fold increase in seven years . More than $ 1.2 billion has been invested in the sector . In 2003 internationally funded advisers assisted with the drafting of a new Telecom Law which was adopted by Presidential Decree in December 2005 . An independent regulator was appointed June 2006 and launched competitive tenders to license new telecom services .
Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai ( Pashto : محمد معصوم ستانکزی ; 1958 ) is a former chief of National Directorate of Security ( NDS ) . He became the chief of National Directorate of Security ( NDS ) in 2016 . In 2019 , he was forced to resign following an extrajudicial killing of Afghan civilians by an NDS unit during a night raid in 2019 . Previously , he has served as Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology from 2002 to 2004 and later as a security advisor for former president Hamid Karzai . He has also worked as the CEO of the joint secretariat of Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program in 2009 . In May 2015 , he was nominated as Minister of Defense by Ashraf Ghani . However , Masoom Stanekzai nomination was repeatedly rejected by Wolesi Jirga ( lower house ) . As a result , Masoom stanekzai remained as acting minister of defense but with full authority through Presidential decree . He was loyalist ally of president Ashraf Ghani .
The Ministry of Frontiers , Nations and Tribal Affairs is an organ of the Central Government of Afghanistan .
Mohammad Arif Noorzai ( born 1959 ) was a former minister of Border and Tribe Affairs for Afghanistan . He was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan 's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of its National Legislature , in 2005 . He is the first deputy speaker of Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga and his current position is the Advisor of President Hamid Karzai for security and tribal affairs He is a member of the Pashtun ethnic group , and the Noorzai tribe . A report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated he is first deputy speaker , and that he is related to President Hamid Karzai through marriage , and that he is a high school graduate .
Enayatullah Nazari was the acting minister of defense of Afghanistan from 8 August 2012 to 15 September 2012 serving for a transitional period . He took over from Abdul Rahim Wardak who resigned after a no-confidence vote by the Afghan parliament . Nazari previously served as Wardak 's deputy defense minister . On September 15 , 2012 , Bismillah Khan Mohammadi took over as the new Defense Minister . Born in Parwan Province in 1954 , Nazari went on to study Political Science and Law in the capital city Kabul . Nazari worked for the Afghan Attorney General 's Office and the Ministry of Justice during the communist and later the post-communist Islamic State period . When the Taliban rose to power , he kept working with the anti-Taliban Islamic State administration of Burhanuddin Rabbani . After the fall of the Taliban regime , Nazari served as the Minister of Refugees . He was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Defense in 2010 , a post he filled until becoming the acting defense minister . Nazari is said to be loyal to Afghan Vice President Mohammad Fahim .
Jum ' a-Mohammad Mohammadi was the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries under the Afghan Transitional Administration . He died in a plane crash on February 24 , 2003 while returning from a mission in Pakistan to learn techniques in copper mining . He was in his late 60s . Mohammadi had served in Afghanistan in the 1970s as water and power minister under president Mohammad Daoud . He was later imprisoned for two years after communists took over in a 1978 coup and assassinated Daoud . After being released , Mohammedi fled to the United States and spent most the 1980s and 1990s there working as a construction engineer and for the World Bank . He was appointed to his position as Minister by interim president Hamid Karzai during a loya jirga in June , 2002 .
Current and past governments of Afghanistan have included a Minister of Commerce in the Afghan cabinet . The Ministry of Commerce creates the enabling environment for sustainable and equitable economic growth and opportunity for all Afghans by promoting private sector development in a socially responsible free market economy . The Ministry has three basic goals : a ) to promote the establishment and implementation of a legal and regulatory framework necessary for a free market economy b ) to integrate Afghanistan into the regional and global economy and c ) to facilitate and promote the development of a dynamic , competitive private sector . After the fall of the Taliban , the 2001 Bonn Conference formed an interim government for Afghanistan . In this Government , there was one minister for Commerce , one minister for mines and industries and one minister for small industries . In 2004 , when the newly elected President Hamid Karzai formed his first official government , the post of small industries was deleted . After 2006 , when there was a major cabinet reshuffle , the minister of Commerce became more and more referred to as the minister of Commerce and Industries . The formal portfolio of the minister of mines is now without that of industries , although he still is sometimes referred to as minister of Mines and Industries . After the reelection of President Karzai he formed a second administration . in January 2010 both of the candidates that Karzai nominated for the post , first Ghulam Mohammad Eylaghi and later Zahir Waheed , were voted down by the National Assembly , Eylaghi functioned for some time as acting minister of Commerce . Only in June 2010 , when Karzai nominated Dr. Anwar-Ul-Haq Ahady as the new minister of Commerce , the ministry was led again by someone who was confirmed by the National Assembly .
Mohammed Alim Razm , an ethnic Uzbek , is a former Afghan government minister . Between December 2001 and July 2002 he was Minister of Mines and Industries in the Afghan Interim Authority . Subsequently he was Minister of Light Industries in the Afghan Transitional Administration until October 2004 .
The Uzbeks ( Uzbek : Oʻzbek , Ўзбек , اوزبک , plural : Oʻzbeklar , Ўзбеклар , اوزبکلر ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Uzbekistan and wider Central Asia , being the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area . They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan but are also found as a minority group in Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Turkmenistan , Russia and China . Uzbek diaspora communities also exist in Turkey , Saudi Arabia , and Pakistan .
Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health is the ministry of the government of Afghanistan which deals with matters concerning the health of Afghanistan 's population . As of 2015 [ update ] the minister of Health is Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz . The Ministry of Public Health provides an annual report to inform the public of advancements in Afghanistan 's health sector .
Lt Gen. Dr. Suhaila Siddiq ( born 1938 ) , often referred to as 'General Suhaila ' , is a retired politician from Afghanistan . She served as the Minister of Public Health from December 2001 to 2004 . Prior to that , she worked as the Surgeon General in the military of Afghanistan . As a government minister , she has been given the title Honorable before her name . Siddiq is one of few female government leaders in Afghanistan , and is the only woman in Afghanistan to hold the title of lieutenant general . She has been working for the government of Afghanistan since Mohammed Zahir Shah 's reign .
Current and past governments of Afghanistan have included a Minister of Commerce in the Afghan cabinet . The Ministry of Commerce creates the enabling environment for sustainable and equitable economic growth and opportunity for all Afghans by promoting private sector development in a socially responsible free market economy . The Ministry has three basic goals : a ) to promote the establishment and implementation of a legal and regulatory framework necessary for a free market economy b ) to integrate Afghanistan into the regional and global economy and c ) to facilitate and promote the development of a dynamic , competitive private sector . After the fall of the Taliban , the 2001 Bonn Conference formed an interim government for Afghanistan . In this Government , there was one minister for Commerce , one minister for mines and industries and one minister for small industries . In 2004 , when the newly elected President Hamid Karzai formed his first official government , the post of small industries was deleted . After 2006 , when there was a major cabinet reshuffle , the minister of Commerce became more and more referred to as the minister of Commerce and Industries . The formal portfolio of the minister of mines is now without that of industries , although he still is sometimes referred to as minister of Mines and Industries . After the reelection of President Karzai he formed a second administration . in January 2010 both of the candidates that Karzai nominated for the post , first Ghulam Mohammad Eylaghi and later Zahir Waheed , were voted down by the National Assembly , Eylaghi functioned for some time as acting minister of Commerce . Only in June 2010 , when Karzai nominated Dr. Anwar-Ul-Haq Ahady as the new minister of Commerce , the ministry was led again by someone who was confirmed by the National Assembly .
Sayed Mustafa Kazemi ( Dari : سید مصطفی کاظمی , 1959 - November 6 , 2007 ) from Parwan was a prominent Afghan politician . He was one of the leaders and the spokesman for the opposition movement known as the United National Front . He was a former minister of commerce in the Afghan Transitional Government . Kazemi was amongst a delegation of politicians and lawmakers killed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghlan , northern Afghanistan , on November 6 , 2007 . [ failed verification ]
Shia Islam or Shi'ism is one of the two main branches of Islam . It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam ( leader ) after him , most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm , but was prevented from the caliphate as a result of the incident of Saqifah . This view primarily contrasts with that of Sunni Islam , whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor and consider Abu Bakr , who was appointed caliph by a small group of Muslims at Saqifah , to be the first rightful caliph after the Prophet . Unlike the first three Rashidun caliphs , Ali was from the same clan as Muhammad , Banu Hashim , as well as being the prophet 's cousin and being the first male to become Muslim . Shia Islam is the second largest branch of Islam : as of the late 2000s , Shia Muslims constituted 10-15% of all Muslims . Twelver Shia is the largest branch of Shia Islam , with 2012 estimates saying that 85% of Shias were Twelvers . Shia Islam is based on the prophet 's hadith ( Ghadir Khumm ) . Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad , and as the first Imam . The Shia also extend this Imammah to Muhammad 's family , the Ahl al-Bayt ( the people/family of the House ) , and some individuals among his descendants , known as Imams , who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community , infallibility and other divinely ordained traits . Although there are many Shia subsects , modern Shia Islam has been divided into two main groupings : Twelvers and Ismailis , with Twelver Shia being the largest and most influential group among Shia .
The Afghan Minister of Agriculture , Irrigation & Livestock ( /
Sayed Hussein Anwari ( Dari : سید حسین انوری ) ( 1956 - 5 July 2016 ) was a politician in Afghanistan . He is a Shia and comes from Mohammed Asef Mohseni 's Harakat-e Islami ( Islamic Movement party ) .
Current and past governments of Afghanistan have included a Minister of Justice in the Afghan cabinet . The Ministry of Justice of Afghanistan assumes responsibilities such as drafting and reviewing laws and decrees of the president , raising public awareness of legal topics , managing affairs relating to legal aid , and printing and disseminating legislative documents . In 1967 , the Ministry of Justice was combined with the Attorney General 's Office . By 1977 , the Ministry of Justice took over the functions of the Chief Justice .
Abdul Rahim Karimi was Minister of Justice of Afghanistan between December 2001 and October 2004 in the Afghan Interim Authority and the Afghan Transitional Administration . He was replaced by Sarwar Danish when Karzai reshuffled his cabinet when he was elected president in 2004 . Karimi , an ethnic Uzbek who was aligned with the Northern Alliance , was installed as minister by the Bonn Conference , following the defeat of the Taliban government . [ citation needed ]