| Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai | |
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| In office 1995 – 26 June 1996 |
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| President | Burhanuddin Rabbani |
| Preceded by | Arsala Rahmani (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Gulbuddin Hekmatyar |
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| Born | 1944 Malang, Afghanistan |
| Political party | Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan |
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (Pashto: احمد شاه احمدزی - b. 1944) is an Afghan politician. He served as the prime minister of Afghanistan from 1995 to 1996. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Ahmadzai sub-tribe.
Biography
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai was born in Malang village of Khaki Jabbar district, Kabul. 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 before he returned back to Afghanistan in 2001 after the fall of Taliban.
Ahmadzai was an independant candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election supporting an Islamic system of government. He was confident about his chances of winning, but only received 0.8% of the total vote in the election.
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