Heads of Government of Afghanistan

Term	Incumbent	Notes
Prime ministers
25 October 1927 to January 1929	Sardar Shir Ahmad, Padshah-i Afghanistan
January 1929 to 1 November 1929	Shir Giyan, Padshah-i Afghanistan
14 November 1929 to 1937	Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan, Padshah-i Afghanistan
1937 to May 1946	Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan, De Afghanistan Bacha	Pashto made official language of Afghanistan
May 1946 to 7 September 1953	Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan
7 September 1953 to 10 March 1963	Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan
10 March 1963 to 2 November 1965	Mohammad Yusuf
2 November 1965 to 11 October 1967	Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal
11 October 1967 to 1 November 1967	Abdullah Yaqta (interim)
1 November 1967 to 9 June 1971	Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi
9 June 1971 to 12 December 1972	Abdul Zahir
12 December 1972 to 17 July 1973	Mohammad Musa Shafiq
1 May 1978 to 27 March 1979	Nur Mohammad Taraki
27 March 1979 to 27 December 1979	Hafizullah Amin
27 December 1979 to 11 June 1981	Babrak Karmal
11 June 1981 to 26 May 1988	Sultan Ali Keshtmand	1st Term
26 May 1988 to 21 February 1989	Mohammad Hassan Sharq
21 February 1989 to 8 May 1990	Sultan Ali Keshtmand	2nd Term
8 May 1990 to 15 April 1992	Fazal Haq Khaliqyar
6 July 1992 to 15 August 1992	Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
17 June 1993 to 28 June 1994	Gulbuddin Hekmatyar	1st Term
November 1994 to 1995	Arsala Rahmani (acting)
1995 to 26 June 1996	Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (acting)
26 June 1996 to 27 September 1996	Gulbuddin Hekmatyar	2nd Term
27 September 1996 to 11 August 1997	Gulbuddin Hekmatyar	under Burhanuddin Rabbani
11 August 1997 to 21 August 1997	Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai	under Burhanuddin Rabbani
August 1997 to	Abdul Ghafoor Rawan Farhadi	under Burhanuddin Rabbani