| 5 February | — Mass protest rallies caused by the Muhammad cartoon controversy accompanied by casualties are held in Kabul and other cities. |
| 24 February | — 350 Taliban members and al-Qa‘eda fighters kept in the Puli-Charhi prison who demand a fair trial rebel and capture the prison building. Four prisoners are killed and 20 wounded in the skirmishes with the police; 5 prison guards are also injured. |
| 25 February | — The court sentences Assadullah Sarwari, former prominent NDPA figure who headed the state security structure of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, to death for mass murders in the late 1970s. |
| 12 March | — Chairman of the Senate Sibghatullah Mojaddedi survives an attempt on his life in Kabul. He accuses the ISI of organizing the attack. |
| 22 March | — President Karzai presents a list of the Cabinet and Supreme Court members for the parliament’s approval. |
| 28 March | — Abdurrahman, an Afghan, arrested in February for going over from Islam to Christianity, is released from prison. He risked the death penalty according to the Shari‘a; his case echoed far and wide inside and outside the country. Certified as mentally incompetent, he is released and leaves the country for Italy thanks to interference of some Western leaders and President Karzai. |
| 19-20 April | — Kabul hosts an international conference called “Reconstruction, Stability and Security of Afghanistan—The Role of Regional Countries” attended by members of the Afghan Cabinet and delegations from 10 countries. |
| 20 April | — The parliament endorses the new Cabinet. |
| 28 April | — Military parade is held in Kabul on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Afghanistan. |
| 29 May | — Unrest flares up in Kabul caused by the deaths of four Afghans in a traffic accident, for which the American military was blamed. Thirteen people are killed and several dozens wounded in clashes with the police. The mass unrest is anti-American and anti-governmental. |
| 19 July | — Mawlawi Mohammad Younus Khales, former leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan (eponymous with the party of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar), one of the allies of the Taliban, dies. |
| 4 August | — NATO assumes command of the forces of the international counterterrorist coalition in Afghanistan. |
| 8 August | — The parliament endorses the final composition of ………… |
