| 1 January | —Representatives of the northern provinces gather in Mazar-i-Sharif to protest unjust, in their opinion, distribution of portfolios in Karzai’s new cabinet. |
| 17 January | —The head of state appoints the Central Election Commission to prepare and carry out parliamentary elections. |
| 20 January | —Leader of the Afghan Uzbeks General Dustom escapes with his life in a terrorist act in Sibergan. |
| February | —Four prominent Taliban leaders side with the government. |
| March | —Two new opposition parties—New Afghanistan and the National Authority Party—appear, later to be united into the National Reconciliation Front of Afghanistan under opposition leader Yunos Qanuni. |
| 10-12 May | —Mass rallies protesting against the defilement of the Koran perpetrated by Americans employed at the Guantanamo base (Cuba). |
| 29 May | —Abdullah Fayaz, prominent Muslim theologian and chairman of the Ulema Council of Afghanistan, dies in a terrorist act in Kandahar. |
| 1 June | —Terrorist act is carried out in the Abdul Rab Ahundzada Mosque in Kandahar during the funeral service of Abdullah Fayaz. |
| 5 August | —Former defense minister in the communist government of Najibullah’s General S. Tanai, who fled to………………….. |
