Mohammad Yahya Maroofi (or Maroufi) (born March 5, 1939 in Kabul,He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Barakzai tribe and originally his family is from District Maroof Kandahar, Afghanistan) was nominated on February 2, 2002, as Special adviser to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, President of the Interim Government of Afghanistan. Maroofi has been re-conduct on August 5, 2002 in his position following the re-election of Karzai as President during the Loya Jirga on June 2002.