Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal
Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal | |
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Arghandiwal in Uruzgan in October 2012 | |
| Finance Minister | |
| In office March 2020 – January 2021 | |
| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Qayoumi |
| Succeeded by | Khalid Painda |
| Chairman of Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan | |
| Assumed office 2008 | |
| Finance Minister | |
| In office 3 July 1996 – 27 September 1996 | |
| President | Burhanuddin Rabbani |
| Preceded by | Karim Khalili |
| Economy Minister | |
| In office 16 January 2010 – 9 December 2014 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Anwar ul-Haq Ahady |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) Kabul, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
| Political party | Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan |
Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal (born 1952) is an Afghan politician and the Head of Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan. 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.
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.
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. He was again Minister of Finance from March 2020 to January 2021.