1. Former Head of Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS): Afghan Red Cross 
Fatima Gilani (2004)
Dr. Hossn Banu Ghazanfar (20200216) acting director of the Red Crescent,
Mawlawi Muti-ul Haq Mawlawi Matiul Haq Matiullah Haq Khalis, Matiul Haq Khalis acting Mawlavi Matiulhaq Khaleq (20211005, 20230722, 20240317)
Sheikh Shahabuddin Delawar, Acting President of the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS)(20241005)

Deputy Head:
Mawlawi Nooruddin Turabi (20211005, 20220628, 20220813)

• Maulvi Esmatullah Asim, deputy head of the Red Cross (20211122)
  Deputy President of Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) Mullah Nuruddin Torabi (20230809)
  
  ARCS Spokesperson:
  Erfanullah Sharafzoy (20220623, 20230729, 20240303, 20240317)

Other ARCS officials as of 20200522:

• President: Dr Dr. Hossn Banu Ghazanfar (20200216) acting director of the Red Crescent,
• Vice President : Dr Mirwais AKRAM
  Mrs. Fatima Gilani, Member of the Board
  Secretary General: Dr Nilab MOBAREZ
• Under Secretary General Programmes: Dr Mohammad NABI BURHAN
• Under Secretary General, Support Service : Mr Nowroz Ali ALIZADA
• Health Director: Dr. Mohammad Salim BAHRAMAND
• International Relations and Dissemination Director: Mr Ghulam Habib HESAM
• Disaster Management Director : Mr Abdul Rahman KALANTARY
• HR - Finance Director: Mr Mohammad Taib YOSUFZAI
• Director of Internal Audit : Mr Abdul Habib SAMIM
• Director of Maraston (Social Welfare) : Mr Mohammad Zahid KUSHAN
• Director of Property Management: Dr Din Mohammad NAZARI
• Head of Logistics Department : Mr Mohammad Arif HEDAYAT
• HR Director: Ms Farangis HAZRATI
• Dissemination Manager : Mr Merajuddin ZAHEER
• International Relation Manager: Mr Mohammad Jawad MURADI

Other ARCS officials as of 20140722:

• Vice President: Mohammad Zaher WALIZADA
• Secretary General: Mohammed Naim DINDAR
• Dessemination manager: Haji Noor AGHA
• Disaster Management Director : Abdul Rahman KALANTARY
• Finance and HR Director: Mohammad Naim ATEMAD
• Health Director: Dr. Salim BAHRAMAND
• International Relation and Dissemination Director: Mrs Sarema AFZALI
• International Relation Manager: Mohammad Jawad MURADI
• OD and Resource Mobilization Director: Mohammed Taib YUSUFZAI
• Youth and Volunteer management: Mohammad Daoud LATIF

Provincial Directors of ARCS:
Badakhshan Province:
Sayed Naser Hemat (20100209),
Ghor Province:
Golam Yahya Rasuli (20100209),

2. Previous Functions:
Counsellor at the Taleban-controlled Afghan consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan (19970116)
Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan (19971121,19980312)
Charge d affairs in Saudi Arabia, expelled (19980000)
Deputy Chief Justice of the Appeal Court Kandahar(20001000)
Head of the religious board of the Afghan Supreme Court (2001)
Minister of Mines and Petroleum (20211122) acting

3. Biodata:
Mawlawi Shahabuddin Dilawar Shaikhul Hadith Shahabuddin Dilawar Shuhabuddin Delawar, is the son of Mawlawi Sayed Akbar, a monarchy-era MP from Logar. He was born 1950. Delawar belongs to Logar province. He completed his graduation from Darul Uloom Haqqania. He has been associated with the teaching profession. As of 2021, he is running a religious seminary in Peshawar.

Delawar joined the Taliban in the 1990s when they emerged in Afghanistan. According to one of his former comrades in Harakat-e Inqilab-e Islami, with whom Dilawar fought during the anti-Soviet jihad of the 1980s, Dilawar served as the Taleban representative in the Peshawar consulate, Ambassador to Pakistan, chargé d’affaires in Saudi Arabia, Deputy Chief Justice of the Appeal Court of Kandahar and head of the religious board of the Supreme Court which dealt with the international backlash over the Taleban’s destruction of the colossal Buddha statues in Bamyian in 2001. He also attended the Chantilly conference in December 2012

Maulawi Shahabuddin Delawari Delawar Dilawari accompanied  Taliban envoy Tayyab Agha, former private secretary to Mullah Omar, to  meet representatives of the United States in Qatar in the beginning of December 2011 to hammer out details on the role of an office of the Emirate of Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar. Shahabudin Dilawar and Sohail Shaheen, both former Taliban diplomats in Pakistan, accompanied Tayyab Agha.
 

Ataullah Lodin (High Peace Council Vice Chairman) said, that some former Taliban leaders including Abbas Stanikzai Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai , Shahabuddin Delawari and Sayed Taib Agha have gone from Kabul to Qatar with their families.(20120102). The government of Qatar has agreed to financially support the Ex-Taliban leaders and their families.
 

Reports said that Taliban would send Shahabuddin Dilawar and Mohammad Nahim Mohammad Naim as their representatives to a informal meeting in Paris in the end of Dec 2012.
 

Delawar stressed the need to counter domestic and international mafia, saying the international mafia doesn’t want Afghanistan to reach self-sufficiency. “There is not only one mafia. The mafia exists in various areas. The coal mines have a separate mafia, and talc has a separate mafia. Even there are mafias in our salt mines. The precious and semi-precious stones have separate mafias. Chromite has a separate mafia. flouride has a separate mafia. We are fighting against all of these mafias,” Delawar said.

He said that the ministry has made significant efforts to counter mafia groups and has stopped them from smuggling of minerals.

“The mafia has been prevented now at the national and international level. In the mining sector, the mafias exist at the international level, who do not want Afghanistan to reach self-sufficiency and do not want Afghanistan to stand on its feet,” Delawar said.

Economists said that Afghanistan’s mines have been looted under various titles.(20230310)

Delawar’s elder son, Rohullah Shahab, is already serving as a senior bureaucrat in the office of a Taliban deputy prime minister. Meanwhile, his son-in-law, Shamsuddin Ahmadi, holds a senior position in the Kabul municipality.  Maghfoorullah Shahab, Delawar’s younger son, took over Afghanistan’s embassy in Tashkent on February 4, 2024.

Delawar has come under rare criticism from Taliban members, some of whom have said his son’s appointment as ambassador was a brazen display of political nepotism.

Why It’s Important: The allegations against Delawar are a blow to the Taliban’s claims that its hard-line government is free of nepotism and corruption.