Ismail Khan, like Afghan Minister of Defense Rahim Wardak, was one of the high profile Afghans that those conducting the Tribunals ruled were " not reasonably available " to give a statement on a captive's behalf because they could not be located.

The ANA and AAF became under control of the Afghan Ministry of Defense, which forms the basic military force.

A new $ 200 million Afghan Defense University ( ADU ) is under construction outside Kabul.

Afghan Ministry of Defense | Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan National Army | ANA Chief of Staff | Chief of Army Staff Sher Mohammad Karimi, and Colonel | Col. Shah Mahmood Rauf Wardak.

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

Outside the gate of Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul, the day after Saur revolution on April 28, 1978.

On September 9, agents working on behalf of the Taliban and believed to be associated with bin Laden's al Qaeda group assassinated Northern Alliance Defense Minister and chief military commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, a hero of the Afghan resistance against the Soviets and the Taliban's principal military opponent.

– Afghan Defense Ministry

On one occasion when al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden visited an Afghan camp, the US Defense Department alleges Hicks questioned bin Laden about the lack of English in training material and subsequently " began to translate the training camp materials from Arabic to English ".

A US Department of Defense statement claimed that " viewing TV news coverage in Pakistan of the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States " led Hicks to return to Afghanistan to " rejoin his al-Qaeda associates to fight against U. S., British, Canadian, Australian, Afghan, and other coalition forces.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense is an organ of the Central Government of Afghanistan, overseeing the entire military of Afghanistan.

One of the primary functions of the Defense Ministry today is disarming the militias and warlords not answering to the authority of the central government through programmes such as the Afghan New Beginnings Programme.

On June 9, 2003, the United Nations urged the Afghan government to take drastic steps to make both the Afghan National Army and Defense Ministry better reflect the nation's ethnic make-up.

When those attempts failed the Afghan Ministry of Defense ordered the ANA's Central Corps to assemble a team to attempt a rescue of victims presumed to be alive.

in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast. One week after this major explosion Defense Department officials say that they believe that the explosion was the work of agents of the Afghan intelligence service ( KHAD ) but recently begum kalsom saifullah, a seasoned politician and mother of salim saifullah accounted in his autobiography “ my solo flight ” the incident, in following words “ I can confidently say that some Stinger missiles were taken out of the Ojhri Camp on orders from General Zia so that they can be provided to Iran, and Gen Zia ordered that Ojhri Camp be blown up before the arrival of the US inspection team .”

Azzam issued a fatwa Defense of the Muslim lands, The First Obligation After Iman, and other work on behalf of jihad against Afghan Marxists and Russian invaders in Afghanistan.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the prominent militant Islamist, Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, issued a fatwa, Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation after Faith, declaring that both the Afghan and Palestinian struggles were jihads in which military action against kuffar ( unbelievers ) was fard ayn ( a personal obligation ) for all Muslims.

* Afghan Defense University

On 28 January 2006, the Afghan president Hamid Karzai visited Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Marienborg, the summer residence of the Danish Prime Minister.

On 10 January 2011, Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul visited Denmark, to discuss bilateral relations.

As recent as October 2011, while Karzai was visiting India to sign an important strategic partnership agreement with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Afghan agents of the National Directorate of Security ( NDS ) arrested 6 people in Kabul for planning to assassinate Karzai.

Of the elections in Afghanistan, Sima Samar, former Afghan Minister for Women's Affairs, stated, " This is not a democracy, it is a rubber stamp.

Jum ' a-Mohammad Mohammadi was the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries under the Afghan Transitional Administration.

U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower landed at the airport in 1959 where he was greeted by King Zahir Shah and Prime Minister Daoud Khan among many other Afghan officials.

According to a summer 2001 report in The Friday Times, even the Taliban leaders challenged the very existence of the Durand Line when former Afghan Interior Minister Abdur Razzaq and a delegate of about 95 Taliban visited Pakistan.

Originally a Taliban idea endorsed by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and accepted on behalf of the United Front ( formerly the Northern Alliance ) by President Burhanuddin Rabbani in early January 1998, the proposal took shape as a proposed commission of ulema, or religious scholars, to settle the Afghan conflict in the light of the shariah.

He is currently serving as Afghan Minister of Transportation and Commerce.

* Afghan Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil Motawakil said that, with some " rare " exceptions, all international flights over Afghanistan, including those by the U. N. and International Committee of the Red Cross, would be stopped unless the United Nations released funds from frozen aviation accounts.

* Afghan Northern Alliance Foreign Minister Abdullah offered full support to the United States in any operations, including 15, 000 of its fighters for any possible strike on Osama bin Laden.

* Afghan Information Minister Qudrutullah Jamal condemned the September 11th attacks.

* Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Interior Minister Mullah Abdul Razzaq urged Afghan citizens to support a jihad.

* September 25-During a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, when a reporter asked if the United States should help Afghan people liberate themselves from Taliban rule, president George W. Bush said, " We're not into nation-building ; we're focused on justice.

During the General Assembly session, UN Secretary-General Waldheim and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, UN special representative for Afghanistan, have separate discussions with the Afghan foreign minister, Shah Mohammad Dost, and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Agha Shahi.

* Afghanistan: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's spokesman comments that the issue of Taliban crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan will be discussed during Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's visit to Kabul.

The deputy chairman of the commission responsible for the disarmament program is Afghan Urban Development Minister Yousuf Pushtun.

Mahbuba Hoquqmal, the Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs, said the constitution does not grant protection to women's property rights, and does not prevent women being forced to marry without their consent, and does not offer better guarantees of equal treatment by Afghanistan's courts.

Hemu had won 22 battles, as Prime Minister and Chief of Army of Islam Shah, during 1553 to 1556 to quell the rebellion by Afghan rebels against Sur regime.

Other places of interest include Kabul City Center, which is Kabul's first shopping mall, the shops around Flower Street and Chicken Street, Wazir Akbar Khan district, Kabul Golf Club, Kabul Zoo, Abdul Rahman Mosque, Shah-Do Shamshira and other famous mosques, the National Gallery of Afghanistan, the National Archives of Afghanistan, Afghan Royal Family Mausoleum, the OMAR Mine Museum, Bibi Mahro Hill, Kabul Cemetery, and Paghman Gardens.

* 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

* Abdul Nasir ( Guantanamo detainee 874 ) ( born 1981 ), Afghan

# Redirect Abdul Qadir ( Afghan leader )

The Afghan side was represented by Sahibzada Abdul Latif and a former governor of Khost province in Afghanistan, Sardar Shireendil Khan, representing Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

Before the civilian government was established, Afghan air force colonel Abdul Qadir Dagarwal was the official ruler of Afghanistan for three days, starting from 27 April 1978.

With the help of the Afghan air force led by Colonel Abdul Qadir Dagarwal, the insurgent troops overcame the stubborn resistance of the Presidential Guard and killed Daoud and most members of his family.

In March 1992, the communist regime in Afghanistan collapsed after the sudden change of allegiance of Afghan General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

* In Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan faction leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar joined the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance formed by ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani and northern militia leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Although initial reports blamed the company and claimed four Afghans were killed in the accident, Sayed Abdul Ghaffar, the head of the Kabul police criminal investigations division, told The New York Times that the Afghan driver had caused the accident and said only one Afghan died in the wreck.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ( 1890 – 20 January 1988 ) () was an Afghan Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.

* Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Biography by Afghan Wiki

Another member of the board of directors was Afghan Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana, who owned the other half of the company's shares.

* Abdul Ahad Mohmand – the first Afghan cosmonaut

– Abdul Haq ( Afghan leader )

– Abdul Zahir ( Afghan Prime Minister )

* Abdul Majid Zabuli ( 1896 – 1998 ), Afghan banker

* Munshi Abdul Majid ( born 1952 ), Afghan politician

* Abdul Majid Khan ( born 1953 ), Afghan held in Bagram