Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)

Ministry of Justice

Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Afghanistan
Headquarters	Pashtunistan Watt Kabul, Afghanistan
Minister responsible	Sarwar Danish
Website	http://moj.gov.af/en

Current and past governments of Afghanistan have included a Minister of Justice in the Afghan cabinet.^[1]

Afghanistan's Minister of Justice

name	term	appointed by	notes
Noorudin Turabi	1999?	Mullah Omar	Abdul Razak, one of the Taliban's Minister of Commerce, testified during his 2005 Administrative Review Board hearing, that Noorudin Turabi was the Taliban's Minister of Justice.[2]
Abbas Karimi	December 2001 - December 2004	Hamid Karzai	A member of the Uzbek ethinc group.[1] Appointed during the Afghan Interim Administration and the Afghan Transitional Administration.[1]
Sarwar Danish	December 2004 - January 2010	Hamid Karzai	Former Governor of Daykundi When Danish was renominated in January 2010 he didn't receive a vote of confidence from the Afghan Parliament
Habibullah Ghaleb	January 2010 – present	Hamid Karzai	Previously Chairman of the Legal Consultative Board to the President of Afghanistan

External links

• Official Website Ministry of Justice

References

1. Thomas H. Johnson (February 2006). "The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country’s Troubled Past" V (2). Strategic Insights. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
2. OARDEC (2005-12-16). "Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 1043" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 64–82. Retrieved 2008-04-02.