The Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation ( ps, د ترانسپورټ او ملکي هوايي چلند وزارت, ) is the Afghan Government Ministry in charge of the management of air and ground transportation, operation of airports and the national airline, as well as numerous other state-owned enterprises engaged in the transport business.Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation
The Ministry
the minister is Hamidullah Akhundzada. It is headquartered in Ansari Watt,

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into #Districts, 22 municipal dist ...

. When, after the fall of the Taliban, the

Bonn Conference After Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled in Afghanistan, in December 2001, the German city of Bonn hosted a conference – widely known as the Bonn Conference – of Afghan leaders at Hotel Petersberg, to cho ...

installed an interim government for Afghanistan, the government had one minister for Transport and one minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism. In 2004, when after the Presidential Election the newly elected President

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

his cabinet formed, the post of minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism was abolished. The minister of Transport became responsible for Civil Aviation and the

Minister of Information and culture The Minister of Information and Culture is the head of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture (Nigeria), Ministry of Information and Culture along with serving as a member of the Federal Executive Council (Nigeria), Federal Executive Coun ...

became responsible for Tourism. Under the Taliban, the ministry has outsourced operation of Afghanistan's airspace and airports to the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (Middle East, The Middle East). It is ...

firm GAAC Holding.

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Official Website Ministry of Transportation & Civil Aviation

Official Website Ministry of Transportation & Civil Aviation

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Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...

Civil aviation in Afghanistan Transport organisations based in Afghanistan