Da Afghanistan Bank

Template:Transliteration (DAB, Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is the central bank of Afghanistan. It regulates all banking and monetary transactions in Afghanistan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Established in 1939, the bank is wholly government-owned. It is active in developing policies to promote financial inclusion and a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Da Afghanistan Bank currently has around 52 branches throughout the country, with seven of these in Kabul, where its headquarters is also based.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Individual bank customers are allowed to withdraw up to 350,000 afghanis ($5,000 USD) a week or up to 1 million afghanis a month.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Taxes are paid directly to the central bank, and there is a policy against officials handling tax money.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Seal of the bank

The seal of Da Afghanistan Bank has the name of the bank in Pashto at the top and Latin script at the bottom, the year 1939 in which it was established, and a depiction of a Eucratides I-era coin with the Greek text, "Template:Lang" which means "Of the great king Eucratides".

Mission

Basic tasks of DAB are:

• Formulate, adopt and execute the monetary policy of Afghanistan.
• Hold and manage the official foreign-exchange reserves of Afghanistan.
• Print and issue afghani banknotes and coins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Act as banker and adviser to, and as fiscal agent of the state.
• License, regulate and supervise banks, foreign exchange dealers, money service providers, payment system operators, securities service providers, securities transfer system operators.
• Establish, maintain and promote sound and efficient systems for payments, for transfers of securities issued by the state or DAB, and for the clearing and settlement of payment transactions and transactions in such securities.
• Accept foreign bank applications from banks that wish to operate in Afghanistan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Chief of the bank

• Habibullah Malie Achekzai, 1954–1960<ref name="governors">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Abdul Hay Azizi, 1960–1975<ref name="governors" />
• Mohammad Hakim Khan, 1975–1980<ref name="governors" />
• Ghulam Hussain Jujeni, 1980–1982<ref name="governors" />
• Mehrabuddin Paktiawal, 1982–1985<ref name="centralbankingdirectory" /><ref name="governors" />
• Abdul Basir Ranjbar, 1985–1988<ref name="governors" />
• Mohammad Kabir, 1988–1990<ref name="centralbankingdirectory" /><ref name="governors" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Khalil Sediq, 1990–1991<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="governors" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Abdul Wahab Asefi, ?–1991–?<ref name="centralbankingdirectory">Template:Cite book</ref>
• Najibullah Sahu, ?–1992–?<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Zabihullah Eltezam, ?–1993<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Ghulam Mohammed Yailaqi, 1993<ref name="auto">Template:Cite book</ref>
• Mohammad Hakim Khan, 1993–1995<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="auto"/>
• Ehsanullah Ehsan, during Taliban era, 1996–1997<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Abdul Samad Sani, during Taliban era, 1997–?<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Mohammad Ahmadi, during Taliban era, ?–2001<ref>Template:CELEX</ref>
• Anwar ul-Haq Ahady, 2002–2004<ref name="bios">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="governors" />
• Noorullah Delwari, 2004–2007<ref name="bios"/><ref name="governors" />
• Abdul Qadir Fitrat, 2007–2011<ref name="bios"/>
• Noorullah Delwari, 2011– 14 January 2015<ref name="14jan15">[1]</ref><ref name="bios"/>
• Khan Afzal Hadawal, acting, 14 January – 8 July 2015<ref name="14jan15" /><ref>[2]</ref><ref name="bios"/>
• Khalil Sediq, 8 July 2015 – 2019<ref name="bios"/>
• Wahidullah Nosher, acting, 2019–2019<ref name="bios"/>
• Ajmal Ahmady, acting, 2019 – August 2021<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Haji Mohammad Idris, acting, August 2021 – October 2021
• Shakir Jalali, acting, October 2021 – March 2023
• Hidayatullah Badri, acting, March 2023 – July 2024<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Noor Ahmad Agha, acting, July 2024 – present<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="newgovernor" />

Members of the Supreme Council

In July 2021, the Supreme Council at DAB consisted of:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• Ajmal Ahmady
• Shah Mohammad Mehrabi<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Katrin Fakiri
• Abdul Wakil Muntazer
• Muhammad Naim Azimi

Seizure of US-based assets

DAB owned about US$7 billion in assets held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After the 2021 Taliban seizure of power, a group of about 150 relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks attempted to use a judgement from the SDNY case Havlish v. Bin Laden to gain control of these assets, asserting that they were now legally the Taliban's and thus could be used to pay damages to 9/11 victims' families.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After a period of deliberation, the Biden administration went along with the request, dividing the assets into two halves, one of which would be allocated to the plaintiffs as potential damages, and the other which would be used to set up a trust fund to "support the needs of the Afghan people" but which the Taliban government would remain barred from accessing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ReutersSeize">Template:Cite news</ref> On 26 August 2022, a judge recommended to not award damages as the bank is "immune from jurisdiction" and that it would "acknowledge" the Taliban as the legitimate Afghan government.<ref name="ReutersSeize" /> On 21 February 2023, the request of the relatives was denied, with Judge George Daniels stating that he was "constitutionally restrained" from allowing access to the funds.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• Afghan afghani
• Afghan frozen assets
• Economy of Afghanistan
• Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)
• New Kabul Bank
• List of central banks
• List of financial supervisory authorities by country

External links

• Official website
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