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