List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel

The Afghan Transitional Administration was established in June and July of 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

ecurity Advisors

*Yunus Qanuni
*Zalmay Rassoul

Ministers

*Seyyed Hussein Anwari (Agriculture)
*Mir Wais Saddiq (Son of Ismail Khan) (Air Transport/Tourism)
*Arif Nurzai (Border Affairs)
*Seyyed 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)
*Sayeed Raheen Makhdoom (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)
*Mohammad Ali Jawed (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: Ahmed Ziya Masood (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: 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