List of Taliban members

See also: List of alleged Al-Qaida members

Leaders, Ministers and Deputy Ministers (italicized and bold name indicates captured or killed by U.S.-coalition forces)
Name	Position	Situation
Mullah Mohammed Omar	Emir of Afghanistan; Head of the Taliban Movement	At large
Mullah Mohammad Rabbani	Chairman of the Ruling Council; Head of the Council of Ministers	Died in Pakistan of liver cancer, April 2001
Mullah Mohammad Hasan	First Deputy Council of Ministers	At large; spoke to Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location on May 4, 2003 [1]
Mawlawi Abdul Kabir	Second Deputy Council of Ministers	?
Abdul Wakil Motawakil	Minister of Foreign affairs	?
Abdul Rahman Zahed	Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs	Allegedly created an impression that he entered Pakistan after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, but had returned before the end of 2001 to his home village in Loghar province [2]
Mullah Abdul Jalil	Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs	?
Mullah Ubaidullah Akhund	Minister of Defense	?
Mullah Abdul Razaq	Minister of Interior Affairs	Afghan forces captured Razaq while scouring a rugged mountainous region north of Kandahar, April 1, 2003 [3]. Razaq's son, Abdul, had been killed on September 5, 2002 as he tried to shoot President Hamid Karzai
Mullah Khaksar	Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs	?
Mohammad Sharif	Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs	?
Qari Ahmadullah	Minister of Security (Intelligence)	Killed in late December, 2001 by a U.S. bombing raid in the Paktia province [4]
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi	Minister of Justice	Allegedly sheltered in Quetta by Pakistani officials by the end of 2001 [5]
Qari Din Mohammad	Minister of Planning	?
Amir Khan Muttaqi	Minister of Culture & Information	Allegedly moved to Peshawar, Pakistan before the end of 2001 [6]
Mullah Ghausuddin	Foreign Minister	Killed in a gun battle in Zabul province, May 27, 2003 [7]
Mullah Abbas Akhund	Minister of Health	?
Sher Abbas Stanekzai	Deputy Minister of Health	?
Mullah Abdul Salam Haqqani	Minister of Education	?
Mullah Yar Mohammad	Minister of Communication	?
Alla Dad Tayeb	Deputy Minister of Communication	?
Alhaj Mullah Mohammad Isa Akhund	Minister of Mines and Industries	?
Mawlawi Mohammadullah Mati'	Minister of Public Works	?
Mawlawi Rostam Nuristani	Deputy Minister of Public Works	?
Hafez Mohibullah	Minister of Haj and Religious Affairs	?
Mawlawi Moslim Haqqani	First Deputy Council of Ministers	?
Mawlawi Abdul Raqib	First Deputy Council of Ministers	?
Mullah Mohammad Jan Akhund	Minister of Water and Electricity	?
Mawlawi Faiz Mohammad Faizan	Deputy Minister of Commerce	?
Mawlawi Abdul Hakim Monib	Deputy Minister of Frontier Affairs	?
Mawlawi Shahid Khel	Deputy Minister of Education	Captured in Afghanistan in early April 2003 [8]
Sattar Sadozai	"A key intelligence official"	Captured in Afghanistan in early April 2003 [9]
Zabihullah Zahid	Deputy Minister of Education	Arrested in Balkh province, Afghanistan in early August 2003 [10]

Governors
Name	Position	Situation
Mullah Niaz Mohammad	Governor of Kabul Province	?
Mawlawi Abdul Kabir	Governor of Nangrahar Province; Head of Eastern Zone; (also see above)	Allegedly moved to Peshawar, Pakistan before the end of 2001 [11]
Mawlawi Khair Mohammad Khairkhwah	Governor of Herat Province	?
Mawlawi Nurullah Nuri	Governor of Balkh Province; Head of Northern Zone	?
Na'im Kucki	Governor of Bamian Province	?
Commander Bahsir Baghlani	Governor of Baghlan	?
Commander Arif Khan	Governor of Kunduz Province	?
Mawlawi Shariqullah Mohammadi	Governor of Khost Province	?
Mawlawi Ahmad Jan	Governor of Zabol Province	?
Mullah Dost Mohammad	Governor of Ghazni Province	?
Mullah Badar	Governor of Badghis Province	Captured by Afghan forces in the province of Badghis in early April 2003 [12]

Other high ranking officials, ambassadors and envoys abroad
Name	Position	Situation
Noor Mohammad Saqib	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court	Allegedly moved to Peshawar, Pakistan before the end of 2001 [13]
Abdul Rahman Agha	Chief Justice of the Military Court	?
Mawlawi Mohammed Qalamuddin	Head of the Vice and Virtue Ministry	Allegedly captured April 17, 2003, in Logar province, Afghanistan [14]
Sayed Mohammad Haqqani	Ambassador to Pakistan	?
Abdul Hakim Mujahid	Envoy to the United Nations	Arrived in Pakistan in early December 2001 [15]
General Rahmatullah Safi	Envoy to Europe	?
Mahmoud Saikal	consul to Australia	?
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour	Head of Aviation	?
Mullah Hamidullah	Head of Ariana Afghan Airlines	?
Aljah Mullah Sadruddin	Mayor of Kabul City	?
Mawlawi Abdul Hai Motma'in	Spokesman in Kandahar	?
Toorak Agha	Ex-Governor of Paktia Province	?
Mullah Baradar	?	?

Field commanders
Name	Position	Situation
Mullah Fazel Mohammad Mazloom	Chief of Staff	Released by Abdul Rashid Dostam in November 2001 after fighting near Kunduz, and disappeared [16]
Mawlawi Dadullah	?	Escaped from the siege of Kunduz in November 2001 and reached Kandahar. Took part in the evacuation of Qandahar, then may have returned to his native town Kajai in Helmand province [17]; allegedly participated (by giving orders via cell phone) in the murder of Ricardo Munguia on March 27, 2003 [18]
Mawlawi Nanai	?	?
Mullah Ahmadullah	?	?
Mawlawi Habibullah Ershad	Commander of Shamali front	?
Abdul Razaq Nafez	?	Released by Abdul Rashid Dostam in November 2001 after fighting near Kunduz and disappeared after fleeing to Kandahar [19]
Juma Khan	Military commander	Captured by Afghan forces in the province of Badghis in early April 2003 [20]

Other prominent Taliban members
Yasser Essam Hamdi	Another U.S. born Taliban member	Captured during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, now held in a naval brig in Norfolk, Virginia
David Hicks	The "Australian Taliban"	Captured during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
John Walker Lindh	The "American Taliban"	Captured during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, now serving 20 years in prison in the United States