Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal

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Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal
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Arghandiwal in Uruzgan in October 2012
Finance Minister
In office
March 2020 – January 2021
PresidentAshraf Ghani
Preceded byMohammad Qayoumi
Succeeded byKhalid Painda
Chairman of Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan
Assumed office
2008
Finance Minister
In office
3 July 1996 – 27 September 1996
PresidentBurhanuddin Rabbani
Preceded byKarim Khalili
Economy Minister
In office
16 January 2010 – 9 December 2014
PresidentHamid Karzai
Preceded byAnwar ul-Haq Ahady
Personal details
Born1952 (age 69–70)
Kabul, Afghanistan[1]
Political partyHezb-i Islami Afghanistan

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal (born 1952) is an Afghan politician and the Head of Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan.[2] He was once allied with Islamist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, but in 2008 he was elected chairman of a moderate breakaway faction of Hekmatyar's party.[3]

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal earned a BA in economics, before working at the planning ministry in 1977 and then he went to USA. Back in Afghanistan, he fled from the civil war to Pakistan.[4]

He has served as Minister of Finance in 1996. Arghandiwaal has also served as advisor to President Hamid Karzai over tribal affairs. On January 16, 2010, he was appointed as Minister of Economy by gaining a vote of confidence from the Afghan Parliament.[5][6] He was again Minister of Finance from March 2020 to January 2021.[7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=193&task=view&total=14&start=0&Itemid=2[dead link]
  2. ^ Starkey, Jerome (12 February 2010). "Man with the money Charlie Wilson unleashed a monster". Times Online. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  3. ^ "FACTBOX-Who are Karzai's new cabinet picks?". Reuters. 9 Jan 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  4. ^ "Cabinet Biographies". Embassy of Afghanistan in Tokyo. 2010. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  5. ^ Riechmann, Deb; Faiez, Rahim. "Karzai studying peace offer from militant group". Businessweek. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  6. ^ O'Donnell, Lynne (16 January 2010). "Afghan parliament set to vote on second cabinet list". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  7. ^ "Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal Appointed as Acting Finance Minister Reporterly |". reporterly.net.
  8. ^ Fitri, Khawaja Basir (23 January 2021). "Arghandiwal sacked, Painda named new finance minister".
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Finance
2020-2021
Succeeded by
Khalid Painda


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