Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal (born 1952) is an Afghan politician and the Head of Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan.^[2] 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.^[3]

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal
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
Incumbent
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[1]
Political party	Hezb-i Islami Afghanistan

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.^[4]

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.^[5][6] He was again Minister of Finance from March 2020 to January 2021.^[7][8]