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President and Chairman

• Hamid Karzai

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Vice Presidents

• Hedayat Amin Arsala
• Mohammad Qasim Fahim
• Abdul Karim Khalili
• Nematullah Shahrani

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Security Advisors

• Muhammad 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)
• Makhdum Rahin or Sayed 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 Khan 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)

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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: 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)

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Military

• General Baz Mohammed Ahmadi - Rushkhar military barracks in southern Kabul until August 16, 2003; then corps commander for Herat

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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

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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