[1] The AIHRC under its Chairwoman Shaharzad Akbar was partly reconstituted in exile as Rawadari, a non-governmental organization to monitor human rights violations in Afghanistan.
The Kabul-based[2] Commission was established on the basis of a decree of the Chairman of the Interim Administration on June 6, 2002, pursuant to the Bonn Agreement (5 December 2001); United Nations General Assembly resolution 48/134 of 1993 endorsing the Paris Principles on national human rights institutions, and Article 58 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
[5] The AIHRC played a role in the 2007 Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal when questions arose about the ability of the AIHRC to monitor the status of individuals detained by Canadian soldiers and given into Afghan custody.
A report in The Globe and Mail quoted several AIHRC investigators as being glad of the renewed attention to human rights that the Canadian scandal had created, but fearful of the political consequences from the Afghan leadership once past abuses came to light.
The AIHRC stated that the Taliban government "lacks national legitimacy and international recognition and is not based on the people's will".