Mullah Muhammad Omar was an Afghan mujahideen commander,revolutionary,and the cleric who founded the Taliban. During the Third Afghan Civil War,the Taliban fought the Northern Alliance and took control of most of the country,establishing the First Islamic Emirate for which Omar began to serve as Supreme Leader in 1996. Shortly after al-Qaeda carried out the September 11 attacks,the Taliban government was toppled by an American invasion of Afghanistan,prompting Omar to go into hiding. He successfully evaded capture by the American-led coalition before dying in 2013 from tuberculosis.
A 502-delegate loya jirga convened in Kabul,Afghanistan,on December 14,2003,to consider the proposed Afghan Constitution. Originally planned to last ten days,the assembly did not endorse the charter until January 4,2004. As has been generally the case with these assemblies,the endorsement came by way of consensus rather than a vote. Afghanistan's last constitution was drafted for the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in November 1987.
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef is an Afghan diplomat who was the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan.
The Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,known locally as the Stera Mahkama,is the court of last resort of Afghanistan. Under the current Taliban government,the court has no independence or power of judicial review;the supreme leader of Afghanistan holds the ultimate authority to decide and interpret the law and may overturn any decision of any court. The current chief justice is Abdul Hakim Haqqani.
The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) is a public research university in Omaha,Nebraska,United States. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college,the university was originally known as the University of Omaha. Originally meant to provide a Christian-based education free from ecclesiastical control,the university served as a strong alternative to the city's many successful religiously-affiliated institutions.
The chief justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. The current chief justice is Abdul Hakim Haqqani,who is a founding member of the Taliban.
Fazal Hadi Shinwari was an Afghan cleric who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan from 2002 until 2006. He was appointed to the post by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 8 January 2002 in accordance with the Afghan Constitution approved after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government. An ethnic Pashtun from Jalalabad,Afghanistan,he was a member of the Ittehad-al-Islami party. Shinwari died in February 2011 from a stroke.
Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil Abdul Ghaffar is an Afghan politician who has been a member of the militant Taliban organization. He was the Taliban foreign minister from 27 October 1999 in their first Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan rule,until the Taliban were deposed in late 2001. Prior to this,he served as spokesman and secretary to Mullah Mohammed Omar,leader of the Taliban. After the Northern Alliance,accompanied by U.S. and British forces,ousted the regime,Muttawakil surrendered in Kandahar to government troops.
The judiciary of Afghanistan currently consists of the Supreme Court,appeals courts,civil courts and city courts. All justices of the appeals,civil and city courts are presided over by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The Nebraska Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The court consists of a chief justice and six associate justices. Each justice is initially appointed by the governor of Nebraska;using the Missouri Plan,each justice is then subject to a retention vote for additional six-year terms. The six associate justices each represent a Supreme Court district;the chief justice is appointed at-large.
Abd al-Salam is a male Muslim honorific or given name,built on the Arabic words Abd,al- and Salam. The name means "servant of the All-peaceable",as-Salam being one of the names of God in the Qur'an,which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.
General Mohammad Nabi Azimi. was the Deputy Defense Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) who played a critical role in the fall of President Mohammad Najibullah. General Mohammad Nabi Azimi was an ethnicMohammadzai who belonged to the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. He was also the ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Mullah Abdul Salam Baryalai Akhund was a senior Taliban member. He was serving as the group's shadow governor for Kunduz Province before his death in February 2017. He was reportedly also the group's senior military commander over a large portion of northern Afghanistan.
The following lists events from 2014 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Afghanistan.
Salamat Azimi is an Afghan politician who served as Counter Narcotics Minister.
Mohammad Farhad Azimi is an Afghan politician,who served as governor of Balkh province from 2021 to August 2021. He is also a professor at Balkh University,former chairman of Balkh Provincial Council,and representative of the people of Balkh in the 16th term of the House of Representatives. He was the chairman and member of Legislative Affairs Commission in the 16th term of House of Representatives of Afghanistan and was the Ambassador and special plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Kazakhstan.
Abdul Salam Hanafi is an Afghan Uzbek political and Deobandi-Islamic religious leader who is a senior leader of the Taliban,an acting second deputy prime minister,alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir,of Afghanistan since 2021,and was a central member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office. He has also served as deputy minister of education in the Taliban government from 1996–2001. After the Taliban government collapse in 2001,following the United States invasion of Afghanistan,Hanafi was appointed by the Taliban leadership as a top general to oversee the Taliban’s military activities in Jowzjan Province,Northern Afghanistan from May 2007 until sometime in 2008.
Abdul Hakim Haqqani,also known as Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai,is an Afghan Islamic scholar and writer who has been the chief justice of Afghanistan since 2021 in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime. He has also served as chief justice of the Supreme Court in the 1996–2001 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He was the chairman of the Taliban negotiation team in the Qatar office. He is one of the founding members of the Taliban and was a close associate of the late leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
The government of Afghanistan,officially called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,is the central government of Afghanistan,a unitary state. Under the leadership of the Taliban,the government is a theocracy and an emirate with political power concentrated in the hands of a supreme leader and his clerical advisors,collectively referred to as the Leadership. The Leadership makes all major policy decisions behind closed doors,which are then implemented by the country's civil service and judiciary. As Afghanistan is an Islamic state,governance is based on Sharia law and Pashtunwali,which the Taliban enforces strictly through extensive social and cultural policy.
