After Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was founded in 1996 when the Taliban began their rule of Afghanistan and ended with their fall from power in 2001...

 was toppled in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

, in December 2001, the German

Germany

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 city of Bonn

Bonn

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 hosted a conference of Afghan

Demography of Afghanistan

The population of Afghanistan is around 29,835,392 as of the year 2011, which is unclear if the refugees living outside the country are included or not. The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual society, reflecting its location astride historic trade and invasion routes between...

 leaders at Hotel Petersberg

Hotel Petersberg

Hotel Petersberg has become the Guest House of the Federal Republic of Germany, termed the "Bundesgästehaus" . It is located on the Petersberg, a prominent mountain of the Siebengebirge near Bonn, Germany...

, to choose the leader of an Afghan Interim Authority – widely known as the Bonn Conference.
The Conference chose Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...

, who was subsequently elected President in 2004.
Karzai subsequently appointed many of the anti-Taliban allies and regional leaders to senior posts within the interim government, or to senior posts in the Provincial governments.

Signatories to the Bonn Conference

Signatoriies to the Bonn Conference

signatory	appointment	notes
Ms. Amena Afzali
Mr. S. Hussain Anwari
Mr. Hedayat Amin Arsala	Vice President Vice President of Afghanistan The Vice President of Afghanistan is the second highest political position obtainable in Afghanistan. Vice Presidents are elected in the same ticket as the President. The current Vice Presidents are Mohammad Qasim Fahim and Karim Khalili .-External links:** *List of current Vice Presidents...  2001–2004	Member of the Pashtun Pashtun people Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...  ethnic group. Attended University in the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... , and worked at the World Bank World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty... .
Mr. Sayed Hamed Gailani
Mr. Rahmatullah Mousa Ghazi
Engineer Engineer (Afghan honorific) According to the author and reporter Jon Lee Anderson: "Engineer is a common Afghan honorific, indicating that someone is educated and has studied engineering."...  Abdul Hakim Abdul Rahim (Engineer) Engineer Abdul Rahim was appointed the Afghan Communications Minister of the Afghan Interim Administration -- the first post-Taliban government in 2002.Abdul Rahim was from the Tajik ethnic group....	Ministry of Communications (Afghanistan) 2001–2002	Tajik ethnic group.
Mr. Houmayoun Jareer
Mr. Abbas Karimi
Mr. Mustafa Kazimi
Dr. Azizullah Ludin
Mr. Ahmad Wali Massoud
Mr. Hafizullah Asif Mohseni
Prof. Mohammad Ishaq Nadiri
Mr. Mohammad Natiqi
Mr. Aref Noorzay
Mr. Yunus Qanuni Yunus Qanuni Yunus Qanuni is a politician in Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, Qanuni is the leader of the Afghanistan e Naween political party and former Speaker of the House of the People .-Pre Election...	Interior Minister	A member of Afghanistan's Tajik ethnic group. Currently Speaker of the lower house of Afghanistan's National Assembly.
Dr. Zalmai Rassoul Zalmai Rassoul Dr. Zalmai Rassoul is a politician in Afghanistan, serving as the Foreign Minister since January 2010 after receiving the confidence vote of the Afghan National Assembly. He previously served as National Security Advisor of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which he held since June 2002...
Mr. Mirwais Sadiq Mirwais Sadiq Mirwais Sadiq was the Civil Aviation Minister of Afghanistan and the son of the Ismail Khan, who was then the governor of Herat Province....
Dr. Mohammad Jalil Shams
Professor Abdul Sattar Sirat
Mr. Humayun Tandar
Mrs. Sima Wali
General Abdul Rahim Wardak	Deputy Minister of Defense	Current Minister of Defense following the election of 2004.
Mr. Azizullah Wasefi
Mr. Pacha Khan Zadran Pacha Khan Zadran Pacha Khan Zadran is a powerful militia leader and a politician in the southeast of Afghanistan. He was an ex Soviet-fighter militia leader who played a role in driving the Taliban from Paktia Province in the 2001 invasion, with American backing, and he subsequently assumed the governorship of...	Governor of Paktia	Fought with other regional militia leaders, replaced in early 2002. Became a wanted man in 2003. Currently a member of the National Assembly.
Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi Lakhdar Brahimi Lakhdar Brahimi is a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law...		Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan The United Nations United Nations The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...  witness to the document

See also

• List of international conferences on Afghanistan
• Politics of Afghanistan
  Politics of Afghanistan
  The politics of Afghanistan consists of the Council of Ministers and the National Assembly, with a president serving as the head of state and commander-in-chief of the military. The nation is currently led by the Karzai administration under President Hamid Karzai who is backed by two vice...
  
  
• International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn (2011)
  International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn (2011)
  The International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, Germany, will take place on 5 December 2011. The conference will be hosted by Germany and chaired by Afghanistan....