Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

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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 a politician in Afghanistan, he served from 1995 to 1996 as prime minister of the country. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Ahmadzai sub-tribe.

Ahmadzai was born in Malang village, which is in the Khaki Jabbar district of Kabul province. He studied engineering at Kabul University and then worked in the agriculture ministry. In 1972 he received a scholarship to study in the United States, at Colorado State University. He received a master's degree in 1975 and became a professor at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia.

Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Ahmadzai returned to his country to join the mujahideens. He was a close associate of Burhanuddin Rabbani but then left his group and joined Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Islamic 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 until June 26, 1996, when more of the former militias which had been fighting for control of Kabul made an agreement to form a national unity government to stop the advancing Taliban. 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, and London, 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.

ee also

*Politics of Afghanistan

References

* http://www.iwpr.net/?apc_state=hdriarr2004&l=en&s=f&o=152930