| Name | Position | Situation |
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| Abdul Ghani Baradar | Governor of Herat and Nimruz Province | - One of the founders of the Taliban along with Omar
- Said to be the Deputy leader of the Taliban[2]
- Captured by Pakistani forces in 2010[3] [4] [5] [6] and released at the request of the United States government in 2018[7] [8]
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| Obaidullah Akhund | Minister of Defense | - Senior leader
- Captured by Pakistani forces late February 2007[9] and died of heart disease in a Pakistan prison in 2010[10] [11]
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| Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil | Foreign Minister |
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| 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;[13]
- at large
- Reported to be a leader in the Taliban's Quetta Shura
- Reported captured in late February 2010
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| Mohammad Hassan Akhund | First Deputy Council of Ministers | - At large; spoke to Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location on May 4, 2003
- Reported to be a leader in the Taliban's Quetta Shura.
- Reported captured in late February 2010.
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| Mohammad Nabi Omari | | - Was the Taliban's chief of communications
- Listed as a member of the Taliban leadership.[14]
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| Abdul Razaq | | - Afghan forces captured Razaq while scouring a rugged mountainous region north of Kandahar, April 1, 2003.[15] Razaq's son, Abdul, had been killed on September 5, 2002 as he tried to shoot President Hamid Karzai. Abdul Razaq testified he had merely started out as a civilian, conscripted into Afghanistan's civil service by the Pakistan who was promoted to Commerce Minister, without ever becoming a member of the Taliban.[16] He testified he had taken advantage of an amnesty Karzai offered when the Taliban fell, and had not been involved in politics since the fall of the Taliban.
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| Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs | - Staged a public press conference in Kabul, late November, 2001 and denounced the Taliban; by August 2002, he supports the U.S.-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai;[17] Assassinated by Taliban in 2006.
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| Qari Ahmadullah | Minister of Security (Intelligence) | - Supposedly killed in late December 2001 by a United States bombing raid in the Paktia province.[18]
- 12 years after the incident, an investigation by Harper's Weekly alleged that Ahmadullah is alive.[19]
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| Abdul Haq Wasiq | Deputy Minister of Intelligence | - Served as Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the Taliban Intelligence Service.[20]
- Served as acting Minister of Intelligence when Qari Ahmadullah was away from Kabul performing his duties as governor of Tahar province.
- Arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on January 11, 2002, and he was held there until 31 May 2014.[21]
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| Minister of Justice | - Allegedly sheltered in Quetta by Pakistani officials by the end of 2001; captured by United States forces and then set free and given general amnesty in early January 2002[22] [23]
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| Minister of Culture & Information | - Allegedly moved to Peshawar, Pakistan before the end of 2001 and still "hiding out in the Pakistani frontier" March 19, 2002;[24]
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| Ghausuddin | |
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| Abbas Akhund | Minister of Health | - In February 2002, he was "hiding with his military force about 5 miles from Uruzgan village";[26]
- at large
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| Abdul Raqib | First Deputy Council of Ministers | - Unknown (is he the same Abdul Raqib as the official from the agriculture department in 2003?[27])
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| Name | Position | Situation |
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| Mohammad Fazl | Chief of Staff |
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| Dadullah | Senior Military Commander | - Escaped from the siege of Kunduz in November 2001 and reached Kandahar. Took part in the evacuation of Kandahar, then may have returned to his native town Kajai in Helmand province. Allegedly participated (by giving orders via cell phone) in the murder of Ricardo Munguia on March 27, 2003.
- He was nicknamed by the anti-Taliban resistance before the Taliban government fell as The Lame because of a leg he had lost during fighting.[52]
- One of the most effective commanders in the resistance, he has been linked to massacres of Shi'a, the scorched earth policy of Shi'a villages in 2001 (about which he once boasted on the radio), the summary execution of men suspected of throwing hand grenades into his compound in 2001 (they were hanged at one of the main roundabouts), and suicide bombings.
- Killed on May 13, 2007.
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| Jalaluddin Haqqani | Military leader | - First mujahideen commander to capture a city, Khost, from the government of Kabul, in 1991.[53]
- Didn't ally with the Taliban until after their capture of Kabul in 1995.
- Hamid Karzai asked him to serve as Prime Minister, in an attempt to split off the Taliban's moderate wing.
- His death from disease was announced 3 September, 2018.[54]
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| Abdul Razaq Nafez | Field commander |
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| Shahzada | Provincial commander | - A commander prior to the U.S. invasion, he was captured after the defeat of the Taliban and was interred in Guantanamo. He managed to convince authorities he was instead a civilian detained in error, and was released in 2003. He returned to fighting and was killed in 2004.[55]
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| Dawran Safi | Field commander | - Taliban field commander operating in Kunar Province.
- In October 2009, Pål Refsdal made a film on the daily life of the Taliban and the daily lives of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. This film showed the family of Dawran Safi, including his wife and children.[56]
- Killed in a U.S airstrike on 23 October, 2013, while his wife and two children were killed in earlier airstrikes including other civilians.[57]
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| Gul Mohammed Jangvi | Field commander | - On July 19, 2006 explained the Taliban's unexpected withdrawal from Helmand.[58]
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| Akhtar Mohammad Osmani | Field commander | - Killed in U.S. airstrike in December 2006.[59]
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| Abdul Zahir | Group commander | - Killed in the U.S. airstrike that killed Osmani in December 2006.[60]
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| Mufti Nemat | Field commander |
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| Sheikh Ilyas Khel | Commander | - Captured in Pakistan as of August 2, 2007.[63]
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