1. Former Heads of General Independent Administration of Anti-Corruption:
Dr Azzizulah Ludin
Ezatullah Wasifi (20080503),

2. Previous Functions:
Governor Farah Province (2006),
Anti-Corruption Administration Head (200701)

3. Biodata:
Wasifi Izzatullah Ezatullah Ezzatullah Wasifi was born July 15, 1958. His father, Azizullah Wasifi, was a Pashtun Alekozai Alikozai tribal leader in Kandahar and  Minister of Abriculture under former king Zahir Shah. Azizullah Wasifi died in Kandahar at the age of 88. (20150503)
Mid August 2006 Izzatullah was fired as Governor of Farah Province due to overboarding corruption. He has been heavily criticized for doing little to control the graft rampant throughout the country. Wasifi is reported to have been a childhood friend of the current Afghan President, Hamid Karzai. His father, Azizullah Wasifi, was the Minister of Agriculture under former king Mohammed Zahir Shah. Wasifi earned a degree from the Punjab Agricultural University. Wasifi's family left Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979.

Hamid Karzai's brother gave him hist first job as a waiter in a hotel he owned in Maryland. Wasifi served three years and eight months in a U.S. prison after a drug conviction in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1987. Wasifi acknowledged the conviction, but disputed the circumstances. According to the Associated Press a: "...review of criminal records in Nevada and California revealed that the 48-year-old Wasifi was arrested at Caesars Palace on July 15, 1987, for selling 650 grams (23 ounces) of heroin." The Associated Press reported that he had tried to sell 650 grams of heroin to and undercover detective for $65,000. The drugs had a street value of US$2 million. His ex-wife, Fereshteh Behbahani, who now lives in Los Angeles, California was sentenced to three years' probation. Wasifi acknowledged that he was arrested on July 15, 1987, his 29th birthday. According to his account he and his wife were on their honeymoon. According to his account his wife had purchased some cocaine in the hotel bar—an amount for personal use, and the pair were arrested when she returned to their hotel room. Wasifi suggested that his drug use was a youthful indiscretion that should mar his later political career than the youthful drug use of United States President George W. Bush. Between 1994 and 1999 Wasifi and his brother Bashir owned a franchise of Ameci Pizza & Pasta. Ezzatullah Wasefi (Kandahar) was a  Farah governor. Accounts from Western officials generally agree that his leadership was ineffective.

Background:
Afghanistan established a specialized anti-corruption agency, the General Independent Administration for Anti-Corruption (GIAAC) in 2004. Based on the decree under which it was formed, GIAAC has wide-ranging responsibilities. However, an expansive mandate and apparent confusion about its roles (especially vis-à-vis other agencies with anti-corruption responsibilities); lack of leadership; questionable high-level political support; extremely modest resources and capacity; and coordination problems as well as possibly its limited degree of independence, have hindered the progress of the GIAAC. Rather than bringing energy, dynamism, and strong leadership to the anti-corruption effort as intended, the GIAAC appears to have inadvertently muddied the institutional waters giving rise to confusion and uncertainty.

In the meantime, a high-level Inter-Institutional Committee (Chaired by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) was established in August 2006 on the order of President Karzai, to provide a report and recommendations on anti-corruption initiatives for the Government. This Committee has been meeting regularly and is working on its recommendations, which have not yet been made public. However, its mandate is strictly temporary, raising questions about the high-level leadership, oversight, and coordination