Suddenly, a truck arrives outside and little Ahmad is rushed inside.
The site now carries 3, 000 items, with plans to expand to 25, 000 products. (The real store carries more than 100, 000 products.) Prices are the same in-store and online - with razor-thin margins - but Ahmad reckons the website is advertising as much as a revenue source.
The only other ruler to see his fortune shrink this year is Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah, who is trying to rein in bickering politicians in order to jump-start the country's stagnant economy.
Inaugurated in 2010, with major underwriting from the World Bank, the ANIM is the brainchild of Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan's first citizen to hold a doctorate in music, and his achievement is all the more remarkable in a nation where the overthrown Taliban regime had declared not just performing but even listening to music a crime against Islam.
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General Ahmad Savat(ph) is the commander of the police commandos and a special adviser to the Interior minister.
"Lion Air does have the ambition to become the world's leading low-cost carrier, but the concern is that those narrow bodies are not a good fit for Indonesia, " said Ahmad Maghfur Usman, an analyst for RHB Research Institute who is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Khan, an ethnic Tajik, is a former deputy to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of Jamiat-e-Islami, who was killed in 2001.
But what is clear is that, just prior to the attack on Gaza, Hamas's spiritual leader, Ahmad Yassin, had made some sort of offer to end suicide bombings, though it is not known what he wanted in return, or what he meant precisely by this.
"I told him, the good news is we located a heart, " Ahmad said.
Amara Ahmad, of solicitors Fisher Meredith, says she is acting for several children taking legal action against councils for this reason.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the leader of the council, is a strong supporter of Mr Ahmadinejad and has already backed his victory.
Ahmad Lee Khamsi, a Latin American cable executive, is one of the first customers to adopt the technology.
They include Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj, held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after his arrest in Pakistan, and Jawed Ahmad, a journalist with Canada's CTV who is at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, according to the group.
"This is our moment as Muslims, " said Omar Ahmad, board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Ahmad Naser Sarmast, the academy's director, said he is confident that music education will survive.
"I've been doing this for about 10 years and this is very rare, a first for me, " Ahmad said.
"The government's point of view is that the situation will be handled from own resources, " Ahmad Kamal told the AFP news agency.
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Ahmad Fahim Qayem, commander of the Afghan Interior Ministry quick-reaction force whose primary responsibility is to deal with such attacks, rushed to direct the response.
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