Enayatullah Nazari was the acting minister of defense of Afghanistan from 8 August 2012 to 15 September 2012 serving for a transitional period.

He took over from Abdul Rahim Wardak who resigned after a no-confidence vote by the Afghan parliament.

Born in Parwan Province into a Tajik family in 1954, Nazari went on to study Political Science and Law in the capital city Kabul.

Nazari worked for the Afghan Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Justice during the communist and later the post-communist Islamic State period.

When the Taliban rose to power, he kept working with the anti-Taliban Islamic State administration of Burhanuddin Rabbani.