2. Previous Functions:
Rise Engineering Company Admin and Finance Officer (200701-200804)
Paiwastoon Networking Services / USAID / ASMED (200804-200809)
Business Development Officer ICAO Administrative / Executive Officer (200809-201102)
counseling the Afghanistan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MOTCA) (2011-201310) Deputy Director General “Operations” Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (201310-201706)
Director General Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority ACCA (20170531, 20180121, 20190102) 3. Biodata: Mahmoud Shah Habibi holds a Master degree in Aviation Management from the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He has completed the Airport Management Professional Accreditation Program and has received as the first Afghan the International Airports Professional “IAP” designation from International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and Airport Council International (ACI). Mahmood Shah Habibi was working as a Deputy Director General on a Deputy Minister Rank for the newly constituted Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) in 2013. Habibi was responsible for all of the civil aviation activities in the country such as Airports operations and Development, Air Traffic Management including Afghanistan’s Airspace Control, Aviation Security, Flight Safety Oversight of both national and international airlines flying into Afghanistan, Communication Navigation Surveillance (CNS), Civil Aviation Institute and Meteorology Department of Afghanistan.
Habibi had also served as the deputy minister for operations at the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority and has also worked as FAA management specialist at Federal Aviation Administration.(20170531) ·
The family of a former Afghan official who was allegedly detained by the Taliban in Kabul last month says that they have “no information on his whereabouts.”
Ahmad Shah Habibi accused the Taliban of detaining his brother Mahmood Shah Habibi, former deputy chief of Afghanistan’s Aviation Authority, in the Shash Darak area of Kabul on August 10.
“The Taliban, who were wearing civilian clothes, detained Mohammad Shah Habibi in front of his house in the Shash Darak area. ... Later, they broke the gate, forced their way into the house, and took some documents, books and a laptop computer.”
The Taliban's representative did not respond to request for comment about the alleged disappearance and whether Habibi had been detained.
A close source to the Taliban’s administration who does not want to be named confirmed that on August 10, the Intelligence Department arrested Mahmood Shah Habibi, the Afghanistan’s former Aviation Authority Chief with several other employees of Asia Consultancy Group (ACG), an Afghan-American company that works in the telecom sector.
His job with the U.S. granted him a Special Immigrant Visa, which led to a green card in 2014 and U.S. citizenship in September of 2021, just weeks after the Taliban takeover. He was a consultant at the time with ARX Communications, an American company operating infrastructure for Afghanistan's airports.
