Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai , also listed as Ahmed Shah Achmadsai ( Pashtun احمد شاه احمدزی, Persian احمدشاه احمدزی Ahmadschah Ahmadsai , DMG Aḥmadšāh Aḥmadzay ; * March 30, 1944 in the village of Malang , Kabul Province), is an Afghan politician who ruled as Prime Minister from 1995 to 1996.

Career

Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai graduated from the University of Kabul with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1967 and worked in the Ministry of Agriculture from 1969 to 1972. In 1972 he received a scholarship to the University of Colorado , which he completed in 1975 with an MBA. He later taught as a lecturer at the King Faisal University in Dammam in Saudi Arabia . After the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (DVPA = Hizb-i-Dimukratik-i-Chalq Afghanistan) came to power in Afghanistan in 1979, Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai returned to Afghanistan and joined the resistance against the DVPA as an employee of Burhānuddin Rabbāni .

After the end of the DVPA, Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai became deputy head of the group in 1992 and also served as a minister in the Afghan government. He served as Interior and Construction Minister, and then became Deputy Prime Minister. At some point in 1995 he became the first Prime Minister and served until June 26, 1996. Ahmadzai served as Minister of Education for the remaining three months of the government.

Ahmadzai fled when the Taliban captured Kabul in September 1996 . He lived in Istanbul and London and returned to Afghanistan in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. In 2004, Ahmadzai was an independent candidate for the Afghan presidential election and supported an Islamic system. He thought his chances of winning the election were good, but received only 0.8% of the vote.

Web links

• Report at the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (English)
• Biography ( memento of April 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on www.afghanistan-seiten.de