Abdul Rahim Karimi was Minister of Justice of Afghanistan between December 2001 and October 2004 in the Afghan Interim Authority and the Afghan Transitional Administration. He was replaced by Sarwar Danish when Karzai reshuffled his cabinet when he was elected president in 2004. Karimi, an ethnic Uzbek who was aligned with the Northern Alliance, was installed as minister by the Bonn Conference, following the defeat of the Taliban government.