Afghan Cabinet - 2012
On March 5, 2012, the Wolesi Jirga confirmed all nine of President Karzai’s ministerial nominees. The nomination process was drawn out — it began in 2010 — and contentious, but the entire cabinet has now been confirmed. Seven of the nominees had been serving in an acting capacity at their ministries. Date of Information: 3/12/2012
| Pres. | Hamid KARZAI |
| First Vice Pres. | Mohammad FAHIM Khan |
| Second Vice Pres. | Abdul Karim KHALILI |
| Min. of Agriculture, Irrigation, & Livestock | Mohammad Asif RAHIMI |
| Min. of Border & Tribal Affairs | Asadullah KHALID |
| Min. of Commerce & Industry | Anwar Ul-Haq AHADY |
| Min. of Communications | Amirzai SANGIN |
| Min. of Counternarcotics | ZARAR Ahmad Moqbel Osmani |
| Min. of Defense | Abdul Rahim WARDAK, Gen. |
| Min. of Economy | Abdul Hadi ARGHANDIWAL |
| Min. of Education | Faruq WARDAK |
| Min. of Energy & Water | Ismail KHAN |
| Min. of Finance | Omar ZAKHILWAL |
| Min. of Foreign Affairs | Zalmay RASSOUL, Dr. |
| Min. of Hajj & Islamic Affairs | Mohammad Yusuf NIAZI |
| Min. of Health | Suraya DALIL, Dr. |
| Min. of Higher Education | Obaidullah OBAID |
| Min. of Information & Culture | Sayed Makhdum RAHIN |
| Min. of Interior | BISMULLAH Muhammadi Khan |
| Min. of Justice | Habibullah GHALEB |
| Min. of Martyred, Disabled, Labor, & Social Affairs | Amena AFZALI |
| Min. of Mines | Wahidullah SHAHRANI |
| Min. of Public Works | Najibullah AAZHANG |
| Min. of Refugees & Repatriation | Jamahir ANWARI |
| Min. of Rural Rehabilitation & Development | Wais BARMACK |
| Min. of Transportation | Daoud Ali NAJAFI, Dr. |
| Min. of Urban Development | Hassan ABDULHAI |
| Min. of Women's Affairs | Hasan Bano GHAZANFAR |
| National Security Adviser | Rangin Dadfar SPANTA |
| Dir. Gen., National Directorate of Security | Rahmatullah NABIL, Maj. Gen. |
| Governor, Da Afghanistan Bank | Noorullah DELAWARI |
| Ambassador to the US | Eklil Ahmad HAKIMI |
| Permanent Representative to the UN, New York | Zahir TANIN |
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