23 December 2004 - Cabinet Appointments
On December 23, 2004, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced appointments to his Cabinet. According to criteria set by the Afghan Constitution, all Cabinet ministers must have at least a university education. Hamid Karzai also declared that candidates for Cabinet appointments had to renounce any nationality other than Afghan. Following the announcement, most of the Cabinet positions went to technocrats with work experience relevant to their assigned portfolios; a marked change from the interim Cabinet which included several wartime commanders representing various ethnic factions. The new Cabinet is to be subject to the approval of the Afghan National Assembly once that body is created pursuant to parliamentary elections that were scheduled for April 2005.
| Afghan Government Cabinet | |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
| First Vice President | Ahmad Zia Masood |
| Second Vice President | Abdul Karim Khalili |
| Defense Minister | Abdur Rahim Wardak |
| Foreign Minister | Abdullah |
| Finance Minister | Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi |
| Interior Minister | Ali Ahmad Jalali |
| Commerce | Hedayat Amin Arsala |
| National Security Adviser | Zalmay Rasool |
| Education | Noor Mohammed Qarqeen |
| Economy | Mohammed Amin Farhang |
| Transport | Enayatullah Qasemi |
| Women's Affairs | Massouda Jalal |
| Communication | Amirzai Sangeen |
| Mines and Industry | Mir Mohammed Sediq |
| Public Works | Suhrab Ali Safari |
| Urban Development | Yusuf Pashtun |
| Agriculture and Food | Obaidullah Ramin |
| Energy | Ismael Khan |
| Justice | Mohammed Sarwar Danish |
| Higher Education | Amir Shah Hasanyar |
| Information and Culture | Sayed Makhdum Rahin |
| Public Health | Sawed Mohammed Amin Fatemi |
| Hajj and Islamic Affairs | Namatullah Shahrani |
| Border Affairs | Mohammed Karim Brahoye |
| Social and Labor | Sayed Ekramuddin Agha |
| Refugees | Mohammad Azam Dadfar |
| Martyrs and Disabled | Sediqa Balkhi |
| Rural Development | Mohammed Hanif Atmar |
| Counternarcotics | Habibullah Qadari |
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