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Ashraf Ghani is not an ethnonationalist
[Al Jazeera] On February 5, in an article published in the opinion section of Al Jazeera English, author Eisa Khan Ayoobi classified Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..as an "ethnonationalist", surprising many people who have been following Ghani's political career and tenure as president closely. I have known Ghani personally for several years - I served as the senior policy adviser at the Afghanistan Security Transition Commission which he chaired, I was a member of his electoral campaign team on behalf of the Afghanistan Social Democratic Party, and for the past year, I have been serving as a deputy minister in his National Unity Government. I can confidently say that the president I know and work closely with is not an ethnonationalist. Posted by: Fred 2018-02-14 |
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