 He was also part of the UN-sponsored arrangements for transition to the post-Bonn Interim Authority in Afghanistan in 2001.In April 2002, Sharif Ghalib was appointed by the Afghan Interim Administration formed following the Bonn Agreement as Afghanistan's only representative and chief negotiator on the establishment of full bilateral diplomatic and consular relations between Afghanistan and Canada at resident-embassy level.The Embassy of Afghanistan was officially inaugurated on 29 October 2002 in Ottawa, where Ghalib served as chargé d'affaires ad interim and later Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister-counsellor until 2005.