Ehsanullah Ehsan

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Mullah Ehsanullah Ehsan is a former member of the Taliban leadership.[1] Originally, he was the chairman of the Taliban's Central Bank. Later, Ehsan was the Taliban's Administrator of Captured Provinces.[2]

Shortly after the Taliban took over major Afghan institutions in December 1996, Ehsan, acting as chair of the Central Bank, declared most Afghani notes in circulation to be worthless and cancelled the contract with the Russian firm that had been printing the currency. Ehsan accused the firm of sending new shipments of Afghani notes to ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani in northern Takhar province.

Ehsanullah's name appears in the transcripts of several Guantanamo detainees.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Document 1 - Islama 01750, National Security Archive, September 11, 2004
  2. ^ Taliban: Regional Impact


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