- Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai
Infobox Prime Minister
name = Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai
order =Prime Minister of Afghanistan
Acting
president =Burhanuddin Rabbani
term_start =1995
term_end =26 June 1996
predecessor =Arsala Rahmani (Acting)
successor =Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
birth_date =1944
birth_place =Malang ,Afghanistan
death_date =
death_place =
party =Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (born:
1944 ) is apolitician inAfghanistan , he served from 1995 to 1996 asprime minister of the country. He is an ethnic Pashtun from theAhmadzai sub-tribe.Ahmadzai was born in Malang village, which is in the Khaki Jabbar district of Kabul province. He studied
engineering atKabul University and then worked in the agriculture ministry. In 1972 he received a scholarship to study in the United States, atColorado State University . He received a master's degree in 1975 and became a professor atKing Faisal University inSaudi Arabia .Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Ahmadzai returned to his country to join the
mujahideen s. He was a close associate ofBurhanuddin Rabbani but then left his group and joinedAbdul Rasul Sayyaf 'sIslamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan movement. Following the end of communist rule in 1992, Ahmadzai became the deputy head of his group and later served as a minister in the Afghan government. He served as interior and construction minister and then became deputy prime minister. During 1995, he became an acting prime minister in which he served in untilJune 26 ,1996 , when more of the former militias which had been fighting for control ofKabul made an agreement to form a national unity government to stop the advancingTaliban . He then served as education minister for the remaining three months of the government.Ahmadzai fled Afghanistan in September 1996 just before the Taliban captured Kabul. He lived in
Istanbul ,Turkey , andLondon ,England , and finally returning to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.Ahmadzai was a candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election as an independent candidate supporting an Islamic system of government. He was confident about his chances of winning, but only received 0.8% of the vote in the election.
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Politics of Afghanistan References
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