Cika jumla mai zuwa:
juyin mulkin kwaminisanci a 1978, Ahmadzai ya koma Afghanistan don shiga mujahideen. Ya kasance kusa da Burhanuddin Rabbani, yana zama mataimakin jam'iyyar Jamiat-e Islami, amma daga baya ya tafi ya shiga jam'iyyar Abdul Rasul Sayyaf ta Islamic Dawah Organization of Afghanistan a shekarar 1992, shekarar da mulkin kwaminisanci ya ƙare. Ya yi aiki a matsayin minista a gwamnatin Afghanistan bayan kwaminisanci, a matsayin ministan cikin gida, gini da ilimi, kuma daga baya ya zama firaminista tsakanin 1995 da 1996, kodayake ya rage mahimmancin waɗannan mukamai saboda rikice-rikice saboda fadace-fadace a wancan lokacin.