Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal

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.

Early life Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal was born in 1952 in Arghandi, which is on the outskirts of Kabul, which was then part of the Kabul Province in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. He earned a BA in economics from Kabul University in 1976, before working at the planning ministry in 1977.

Political career He has served as Minister of Finance in 1996 when Burhanuddin Rabbani was in power. Arghandiwaal has also served as advisor to President Hamid Karzai over tribal affairs. In 2018, he was dismissed from the party by Hekmatyar for collaborating with other parties and acting against the group's goals. He responded by rejecting the statements, stating his faction was registered with the government and could not be dismissed since it was legal. During his time in office, he opposed a proposed dismissal of the ministry's human resources staff, which had been approved by the president. He also initiated a major reshuffle of the ministry, stating they he would remove positions that were due to personal connections, and that through systematic reforms the ministry would be more transparent. According to the decree on his dismissal in 2021, he was dismissed due to weak management, lack of cooperation, and delay in the collection of revenues, among other things.