Abdul Malik Anwar
Abdul Malik Anwar is a Tajik who was a member of the United Islamic Front and as such one of the persons who was named minister by the Bonn Conference in December 2001. Anwar served as Rural Development Minister from December 2001 until the 2002 Loya Jirga were Hamid Karzai named a new cabinet.
As Minister, Anwar accompanied Karzai and several other ministers in February 2002 on a trip to Iran where they issued five memorandums of understanding, including an agreement on rural development.