Afghan Biographies

Nomani, Hamdullah Mawlawi Noman


Name Nomani, Hamdullah Mawlawi Noman
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth 1968
Function/Grade Minister of Urban Development Authority MUDL
History and Biodata

1. Former Ministers of Urban Development Authority (MUDA, MUDLA), MUDL:
Yousef Pashtun (2004-2009)
Sultan Hussein rejected by Parliament, served as acting Minister (2010-2012)
Dr. Hassan Abdulhai Minister of Urban Development (2012035, 20130531 - 20140930 )
Dr. Hassan Abdulhai Acting Minister of Urban Development (20141001)
acting Minister of Urban Development Hamed Jalil (20141209)
Sadat Mansoor Naderi (20150418, 20161114) stepped down (20180612)
Roshan Walusman introduced as the acting minister of urban development and housing (20180613)
Mohammad Jawad Paikar (2018114) acting
Mahmood Karzai (20200602) nominated and acting. Confirmed (20201130)

Spokeswoman for the ministry of urban development:
Nilofar Langar (20170405, 20180306)

Construction affairs deputy minister:
Sayed Nasir Khaliq 820180613)
Housing affairs deputy minister:
Aziz Ahmad Gulistani (20180613)
Urban affairs deputy besides serving as acting minister:
Roshan Walusmal (20180613)
Enterprises affairs deputy minister:
Humayoun Faiz (20180613)
Deputy Minister of Finance and Administrative affairs:
Mrs. Khatira Sadaat Katira Sadaat (20200629)
Afghanistan's Land Authority merging with MUDH.(20181115)

Background:
The following officials of MUDA were accused and suspended May 28, 2015 of corruption charges involving millions of dollars in several urban development and housing projects:
Ahmadshah Hemat, Urban Development Director,
Gul Rahim Ziarmal, Plan and Policy Director,
Mohammad Aminullah Qani, Head of Apartments Cohesion,
Mohammad Aminullah Amin, Director of Property and Accommodation
Ahmad Nawaz Bakhtyar, Director of Housing Enterprise,
Syed Aman Sadat, Director Finance Apartments Cohesion
At least three of the suspended officials from the Ministry of Urban Development Affairs (MUDA) are missing: Mohammad Aminullah Qani, Head of Apartments Cohesion, Ahmad Nawaz Bakhtyar, Director of Housing Enterprise, and Syed Aman Sadat, Manager Finance Apartments Cohesion.(20150530)  The three tainted officials were trying to cross the border into Tajikistan when police arrested them in Sheghnan district in the morning (June 08, 2015), Mohammad Amin Qani, Ahmad Nawaz Bakhtyar and Sayed Amanullah Sadaat.(20150608)
 
The special tribunal formed to try the officials in corruption cases jailed four Afghan officials for 20 and 7 years each and a total fine of 1.86 billion Afghanis on charges of embezzlement. The four officials belonging to the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing appeared before the special tribunal on Monday Mar 27, 2017 as their open public trial official kicked off in Kabul.

Mohammad Aminullah Qani, Head of Apartments Cohesion and Syed Aman Sadat, Manager Finance Apartments Cohesion were jailed for 20 years each on charges of the embezzlement and misuse of the authority. They were also fined 150 million Afghanis each.

The two other officials, Ahmad Nawaz Bakhtyar, Director of Housing Enterprise and Mohammad Yaqub Ibrahimi, the Deputy Director for Housing Enterprise, were jailed for seven years each. The special tribunal also awarded a fine of 443 million for each of the former officials on charges of the embezzlement and misuse of the authority.(20170327)
 

Senior government officials have been sentenced to jail for corruption and public funds embezzlement, Afghanistan’s high court confirmed. In a statement published by the supreme court of Afghanistan, six government officials including Khatera Sadat, the former deputy minister to the Urban Development and Land Ministry, and 5 others have been sentenced to jail in charge of corruption and public funds embezzlement.
 

According to the primary court for anti-corruption, Khatera Sadat, the commercial director for Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) and ex-deputy minister for the Ministry of Urban Development and Land, has been sentenced to 4.8 years jail period.

Mohammad Naser and Zabihullah Hashemi have also been sentenced to 4.8 years in prison each, while Fakhruddin Bahrami and Hafizullah have been sentenced to 3.6 years in prison.

Azimuddin, an employee of the Ministry of Finance who was assigned to the Ministry of Urban Development and Land to control their financial transactions has been sentenced to a 1.2 year jail period.

This comes the senior officials at MUDL was introduced to the General Attorney office by Afghanistan’s parliament house after documents about a ghost school in Zabul province leaked to the media in December 2020.

The documents indicated that a ghost school in Zabul province was contracted for an amount o 68 million Afghanis and nearly 40 million Afghani of it was processed through the Ministry of Finance and was paid to the construction company involved in this case.(20210530)



Afghanistan Land Authority ARAZI  Afghanistan Independent Land Authority (ARAZI) is getting merged with the Ministy of Urban Development and Housing (MUDH) (20181114)

Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Ahmad Shaheer Shahriar (20101023)
Mohammad Jawad Paikar (20140422, 20161011, 20181001)

Background:
Afghanistan Land Authority has to coordinate land issues and ease land management across the country. Afghanistan Land Authority (ARAZI) is the state of art public entity established as project in September 2009, within the framework of the Government of Afghanistan, and later as a fully legal autonomous entity aimed to remove major national economic constraints, by improving access to governmental lands for commercial activities. The reform takes place through targeting the lack of standardized, efficient and transparent land management services. ARAZI is established as a single reference point for both domestic and international investors, interested to invest in any kind of legal activities on public land in Afghanistan. The mandate of this authority is to coordinate its activities with the Afghan government, line ministries, donors and private sector organizations to ensure that land needed for productive investment is made readily available throughout the country.


2. Previous Function:
Minister of Higher Education
Member of the Taliban Supreme Council
Kabul Mayor (1996–2001)
Head of the Taliban’s municipality commission
Kabul Mayor (20210824) acting
Minister of Urban Development Authority MUDL (202200410)


3. Biodata:
Hamdullah Nomani Mawlawi Noman was born 1968 in Sipayaw village, Andar District, Ghazni Province. He was sanctioned in 2014 by a resolution of the UN Security Council and has already served in the same position as the capital’s mayor under the previous Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001. He gained a reputation as ruthless and tough when it came to maintaining law and order and his appointment to the same post in the new Taliban government is an indication of what the Taliban would like to see in Kabul in future.
 

Last Modified 2022-09-16
Established 2021-08-30