Nematullah Shahrani

Nematullah Shahrani (born 1941) is a prominent Afghan scholar.

[1] He was one of four Vice Presidents of the Afghan Transitional Administration from 2002 to 2004.

Shahrani also headed of the Afghan Constitution Commission.

From Badakhshan Province in northern Afghanistan, Shahrani is an ethnic Uzbek.

Although he was one of the ideological figures behind the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he was never involved in any sectarian, party and other ethnic conflicts in Afghanistan.