Composition of Afghan Interim Administration
| Interim Administration Position |
Name | Ethnicity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairman | Hamid Karzai | Pashtun | Independent Pashtun tribal leader in exile in Pakistan |
| Vice-Chair and Defense Minister |
Mohammed Fahim | Tajik | Defense Minister of the United Islamic Front |
| Vice–Chair and Women's Affairs |
Sima Samar | Hazara | Founder of the Shuhada Organization and Shuhada Clinic in Quetta, Rome Group. |
| Vice-Chair and Planning Minister |
Mohammed Mohaqqeq | Hazara | Warlord fighting against the Taliban for the People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan in the United Islamic Front |
| Vice-Chair and Water and Energy Minister |
Ahmed Shakar Karkar | Uzbek | United Islamic Front |
| Vice-Chair and Finance Minister |
Hedayat Amin Arsala | Pashtun | Foreign Minister of the Islamic State of Afghanistan in the 90s. Rome group. |
| Foreign Minister | Abdullah Abdullah | Tajik | Foreign Minister of the United Islamic Front |
| Interior Minister | Yunus Qanooni | Tajik | Interior Minister of the United Islamic Front |
| Communications Minister | Abdul Rahim | Tajik | United Islamic Front |
| Borders Minister | Amanullah Zadran | Pashtun | Taliban leader, who defected after the American invasion, Rome Group |
| Refugees Minister | Intayatullah Nazeri | Tajik | United Islamic Front |
| Small Industries Minister | Aref Noozari | Pashtun | United Islamic Front |
| Mines and Industry Minister | Mohammed Alim Razm | Uzbek | United Islamic Front |
| Health Minister | Sohaila Siddiqi | Pashtun | Has been in the governments of king Mohammed Zahir Shah and the communist regime of the 1970s and 1980s. Independent |
| Commerce Minister | Sayed Mustafa Kasemi | Shiite Muslim | Spokesmen and leader of United National Front |
| Agriculture Minister | Sayed Hussain Anwari | Hazara | Chief military commander of the Harakat-e Islami in the United National Front |
| Justice Minister | Abbas Karimi | Uzbek | United Islamic Front |
| Information and Culture Minister | Saeed Makhdoom Rahim | Tajik | Poet and writer, Rome group |
| Reconstruction Minister | Mohammed Fahim Farhang | Pashtun | Rome Group |
| Haj and Mosques Minister | Mohammad Hanif Balkhi | Tajik | Independent |
| Urban Affairs Minister | Abdul Qadir | Pashtun | Leader in the United National Front for the Hezb-e Islami Khalis faction |
| Public Works Minister | Abdul Khalig Fazal | Pashtun | Rome group |
| Irrigation Minister | Mangal Hussein | Pashtun | Previously warlord for the Hezbi Islami Gulbuddin, Peshawar group |
| Martyrs and Disabled Minister | Abdullah Wardak | Pashtun | Leader in the United National Front for the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan |
| Higher Education Minister | Sharif Faez | Tajik | United Islamic Front |
| Civil Aviation & Tourism Minister | Abdul Rahman | Tajik | Member of United Islamic Front, but he threw his support tot former king Zahir Shah and became member of the Rome Group |
| Labor and Social Affairs | Mir Wais Saddiq | Tajik | Son of influential warlords Ismail Khan, United Islamic Front |
| Transportation Minister | Sultan Hamid Sultan | Hazara | |
| Education Minister | Abdul Rassoul Amin | Member of the National Islamic Front and the Rome group. | |
| Rural Development Minister | Abdul Malik Anwar | Tajik | United Islamic Front |
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