Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (born 1944) is an Afghan politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1995 to 1996. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...

Ahmadzai was born in Malang village, Khak-e-Jabar district, Kabul province, to the east of Kabul city. He studied engineering at the University of Kabul 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. A view of the old city Kabul Kabul (, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... Bold text Engineering is the application of scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... Colorado State University Colorado State University is a public land grant institution of higher learning located in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. ...

Following the communist takeover of Afghanistan in 1979, Ahmadzai returned to Afghanistan and fought in the resistance. He was a close associate of Burhanuddin Rabani but then left his group and joined the Hidehit-e-Islami militia. Following the end of communist rule in 1992 he became the deputy head of that group and also served as a minister in the Afghan government. He served as interior and construction minister and then became deputy prime minister. Sometime in 1995 he became acting prime minister and served in that position until June 26, 1996 when more of the militias which had been fighting for control of Kabul made an agreement to form a national unity government to stop the advancing Taliban. Ahmadzai then served as education minister for the remaining three months of the government. June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Flag flown by the Taliban. ...

Ahmadzai fled Afghanistan in September 1996 when the Taliban captured Kabul. He lived in Istanbul and London and returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Satellite image of Istanbul and the Bosphorus Istanbul (Turkish: Ä°stanbul) is Turkeys largest city, and its cultural and economic center. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ...

Ahmadzai was a candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election as an independent candidate supporting an Islamic system of government. He was confident about his chances of winning, but only received 0.8% of the vote in the election. An election to the office of President of Afghanistan was held on October 9, 2004. ...

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