Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal

Biography:

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal is Afghanistan's Minister of Economy and the Head of Hizb-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 1977and then he went to USA When the civil war broke out he fled to Pakistan. He has served as Finance Minister in 1996.