| Name | Position | Situation |
| 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 |
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| Mohammad Nabi Omari | Minister of Communications |
- Was the Taliban's chief of communications
- Listed as a member of the Taliban leadership.[15]
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| Abdul Razaq | Commerce Minister |
- Afghan forces captured Razaq while scouring a rugged mountainous region north of Kandahar, April 1, 2003.[16] Razaq's son, Abdul, had been killed on September 5, 2002 as he tried to shoot President Hamid Karzai.[citation needed] Abdul Razaq testified he had merely started out as a civilian, conscripted into Afghanistan's civil service by the Pakistan[clarification needed] who was promoted to Commerce Minister, without ever becoming a member of the Taliban.[17] 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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| Khaksar Akhund | 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;[18] 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.[19]
- 12 years after the incident, an investigation by Harper's Weekly alleged that Ahmadullah is alive.[20]
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| Abdul Haq Wasiq | Deputy Minister of Intelligence |
- Served as Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the Taliban Intelligence Service.[21]
- Served as acting Minister of Intelligence when Qari Ahmadullah was away from Kabul performing his duties as governor of Tahar province.[21]
- Arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on January 11, 2002, and he was held there until 31 May 2014.[22]
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| Nooruddin Turabi | Minister of Justice |
- Allegedly sheltered in Quetta by Pakistani officials by the end of 2001;[13] captured by United States forces and then set free and given general amnesty in early January 2002[23][24]
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| Amir Khan Muttaqi | 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;[13][25]
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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";[27]
- 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?[28])
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