Afghan Transitional Administration
| Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Kabul | |||||||||
| Government | Transitional government | |||||||||
| President | Hamid Karzai | |||||||||
| Historical era | Global War on Terrorism | |||||||||
| • | Loya jirga | 13 July 2002 | ||||||||
| • | IRA established | 7 December 2004 | ||||||||
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| Date formed | 13 July 2002 |
| Date dissolved | 7 December 2004 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of government | Hamid Karzai |
| Head of state | Hamid Karzai |
| Number of ministers | 28 |
| Total number of ministers | 28 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Afghan Interim Administration |
| Successor | First Karzai cabinet |
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The Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan (TISA), also known as the Afghan Transitional Authority, was the name of a temporary administration of Afghanistan put in place by the loya jirga of June 2002. It succeeded the Islamic State of Afghanistan.
Following the invasion of Afghanistan, a U.N.-sponsored conference of a few Afghan leaders in Bonn led to the appointment of the Afghan Interim Administration under the chairmanship of Hamid Karzai. However, this Interim Administration, which was not broadly representative, was scheduled to last for only six months, before being replaced by a Transitional Administration. The move to this second stage would require the convening of a traditional Afghan "grand assembly", called a Loya Jirga. This Emergency Loya Jirga elected a new Head of State and appointed the Transitional Administration, which, in turn, would run the country for a maximum of two more years until a "fully representative government" could be elected through free and fair elections.
The most important thing the Loya Jirga had to do was to choose a president for the Transitional Administration who would lead the country until the official presidential elections in 2004. Initially there were two candidates who had declared to run: former president of Afghanistan and Northern Alliance leader Burhanuddin Rabbani and the American-backed chairman of the Afghan Interim Administration Hamid Karzai. Karzai was also supported by Abdullah Abdullah and Mohammad Fahim, two important leaders of the Northern Alliance. A third possible candidate was Zahir Shah, former king of Afghanistan until 1973. He had spent years living in Rome but had returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime. Already at the Bonn Conference which installed the interim administration there was a group of supporters of Zahir Shah, called the Rome-group, who wanted to take the former king to take up the position of head of state.
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