Burhānuddīn Rabbānī was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996,and again from November to December 2001.
Mohammad Qasim Fahim was an Afghan military commander and politician who served as Vice President of Afghanistan from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death. He was considered a powerful and influential figure during the Karzai Administration.
The prime minister of Afghanistan,officially the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,is the head of government of Afghanistan.
The Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan (TISA),also known as the Afghan Transitional Authority,was the name of the temporary transitional government in Afghanistan put in place by the June 2002 loya jirga. The Transitional Authority succeeded the original Islamic State of Afghanistan,and preceded the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004–2021).
The Council of Ministers of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is the executive body of the government of Afghanistan,responsible for day-to-day governance and the implementation of policy set by the Leadership. It is headed by the prime minister—who serves as the nation's head of government—and his deputies,and consists of the heads and deputy heads of the government ministries.
General Abdul Rahim Wardak,an ethnic Pashtun,is an Afghan politician and former Defense Minister of Afghanistan. He was appointed on December 23,2004,by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Before this appointment,Wardak was the deputy Defense Minister to the former minister,Mohammed Fahim. During the 1980s Soviet–Afghan War,Wardak had been a national Mujahideen resistance leader who fought the Soviet forces. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Wardak province. His diplomacy has been instrumental in promoting ethnic reconciliation due to his lineage from tribal chieftains with strong Pashtun relationships with all ethnic groups of the country. He is fluent in Pashto,Dari (Persian),and English.
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi,or Bismillah Khan,is an Afghan politician who served as the defense minister of Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015 and for two months in 2021. From 2002 to 2010,he served as Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army,and from 2010 to 2012 he held the post of Interior Minister of Afghanistan. He has an anti-Taliban background and once served as a senior commander under Ahmad Shah Massoud. Despite the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021,Mohammadi claims to remain the minister of defense as part of the government of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai was an Afghan politician. He served as acting prime minister of Afghanistan from 1995 to 1996. He was an ethnic Pashtun from the Ahmadzai sub-tribe.
The 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War took place between 28 April 1992—the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah—and the Taliban's conquest of Kabul establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996.
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.
Abdul Qayyum "Zakir",also known by the nom de guerre Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul,is the acting Deputy Minister of Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He previously served as the acting Defense Minister,from 24 August 2021 to 7 September 2021.
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is the state agency in charge of implementing Islamic law in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as defined by the Taliban. It was first instituted in 1992 by the Rabbani government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and adopted in 1996 by the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan of 1996–2001. The ministry was restored in the reinstated Islamic Emirate in September 2021 after the August fall of Kabul.
Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid is an Afghan commander and cleric who is the second deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting defense minister. He has been a deputy leader of the Taliban since 2016,and was additionally appointed to his ministerial role after the Taliban's victory over Western-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war. He has been the Taliban's military chief since 2020.
On 21 January 2019,in central Afghanistan,the Taliban attacked a military compound in Maidan Shar,killing officers of the Afghan National Directorate of Security. The Taliban attacked while engaging in the process of negotiating a truce with the United States. The attack began when an explosives-laden car rammed through a military checkpoint and onto the grounds of the compound,where the vehicle detonated. After the explosion,two gunmen entered the base and opened fire on Afghan soldiers,before the two were shot down. A senior official in the Afghan defense ministry said that 126 people were killed in the explosion. The Taliban claimed responsibility and stated that over 190 people were killed in the attack. The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) reported that 36 military personnel were killed in the attack. Afghan president,Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack and said that the 'Afghan intelligence agency personnel were target of the attack'.
Amir Khan Muttaqi is an Afghan Taliban politician serving as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021. He was also a member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office.
The Taliban has ruled Afghanistan as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since taking control by force in 2021,overthrowing the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The takeover was widely criticized by the international community,and no countries have extended diplomatic recognition to the new regime,despite nominally maintaining relations with Afghanistan. The Taliban has campaigned for international recognition since the takeover. Several countries have vowed never to recognize the Islamic Emirate,and others have said they will do so only if human rights in the country are respected. Some countries have accredited Taliban diplomats at the chargéd'affaires level despite not recognizing the Islamic Emirate. In September 2023,China became the first country to formally name a new ambassador to the country since the takeover,and in January 2024 recognized the Taliban's envoy to China;however,China still does not formally recognize the Taliban.
Mohammad Hasan Akhund is an Afghan mullah,politician and Taliban leader who is currently serving as the acting prime minister of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021.
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.
Events in the year 2023 in Afghanistan.
