Ashraf Ghani

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Ashraf Ghani Ahmadsai in July 2014

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadsai ( Ahmadsai is the tribe name; Pashtun محمد اشرف غني احمدزی DMG Muḥammad Ašraf Ġanī Aḥmadzay , born May 19, 1949 in Logar ) is an Afghan political scientist and President of Afghanistan since 2014 . According to media reports, he has been in exile since August 15, 2021 .

After Ghani officially dropped his tribal name Ahmadsai in 2014 , Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has been used as the name since then .

Life

Origin and professional career

The Pashtun Ashraf Ghani first studied at the University of Kabul and at the American University in Beirut (where he met his wife Rula Ghani ) before moving to the United States on a scholarship in 1977. There he received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Columbia University in New York . From 1983 to 1991 he taught anthropology and political science at the University of California, Berkeley and at Johns Hopkins University . He later moved to the World Bank and helped with the transformation in Russia , the People's Republic of China and India .

Return to Afghanistan 2001

In December 2001, after a 24-year absence, he returned to Kabul , initially as a UN special envoy . From June 2, 2002 to December 14, 2004 he was finance minister and at the end of 2002 he was responsible for the currency reform of the new Afghani . He was Chancellor of the University of Kabul from December 22, 2004 to December 21, 2008 and in 2006 he was considered a possible candidate for the post of UN Secretary General . In the 2009 presidential election he received about 3% of the vote, coming in fourth place behind Hamid Karzai , Abdullah Abdullah and Ramasan Bashardost . In 2011 he was given the task of assuming security responsibility for Afghanistan from then President Hamid Karzai, which has been carried out by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) since 2001 .

Presidency

Ashraf Ghani with Rajiv Shah and Karl W. Eikenberry
President Ashraf Ghani with Abdullah Abdullah and John Kerry , July 2014

For the 2014 presidential election , he appointed the Uzbek warlord Raschid Dostum , who is known for his brutality, as his deputy in order to get votes in the non-Pashtun north as well. Ashraf used to describe Ghani Dostum as a "killer". In the first ballot on April 5, 2014, Ashraf Ghani received almost 32% of the vote, while his main rival candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, got 45%. Ghani was particularly successful in the Pashtun settlement areas, while Abdullah was successful in the Persian-speaking parts of the country. On June 14, 2014, there was a runoff between Ghani and Abdullah, with most of the other candidates having voted in favor of Abdullah in advance. The election result, according to which Ghani had achieved 56% of the vote, was therefore considered to be surprising. Ghani had gained 20% of the votes in the second ballot, while Abdullah had lost 3% despite the support of most of the eliminated candidates. The followers of Abdullah thereupon did not recognize the result and spoke of election fraud. In a compromise that was reached through the mediation of US Secretary of State John Kerry , both sides agreed to recount the votes. On September 21, Ghani was officially declared the winner of the election without the exact numbers of the result of the vote recount being disclosed. At the same time it became known that the office of prime minister would be filled with a steward of Abdullah as part of a settlement between the two opponents. On September 29, 2014, Ghani was sworn in as President.

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Conquest of Kabul by the Taliban and exile

After the USA, Germany and other states began to withdraw their military forces from Afghanistan in mid-2021, the Taliban began to recapture the country. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban advanced into Kabul and demanded the peaceful transfer of power by the Afghan government. Ghani, who had made a televised address to the Afghan people the day before and announced that the Afghan government would regain control of the entire country, finally bowed to the demands of the Taliban and received their representatives in the presidential palace in Kabul. The Afghan Interior Ministry then announced a peaceful transfer of power to the Taliban. According to consistent media reports, Ghani left Afghanistan into exile on the afternoon of August 15, 2021. The exact whereabouts of Ghani were initially unclear. Several media initially reported that Ghani had been flown to the Tajik capital, Dushanbe . According to the news channel Al-Jazeera, Ghani is said to be in the Uzbek capital Tashkent .

World justice project

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Justice Project . In 2013, Ghani was ranked 2nd in the “World Thinkers” ranking by Prospect magazine .

Private

Ashraf Ghani is married to the Lebanese Christian Rula Ghani and has two children, Tarek and Marjam Ghani .

Web links

Commons : Ashraf Ghani Ahmadsai  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ twitter.com
  2. ↑ Ghani: Wanted to prevent a bloodbath. In: Tagesschau. August 15, 2021, accessed on August 15, 2021 (German): "Time: 21:10"
  3. ^ Ashraf Ghani: Production and Domination: Afghanistan, 1747-1901. PhD Dissertation, Columbia University (1982). wordpress.com (PDF)
  4. ↑ a b Ashraf Ghani Ahmadsai. Retrieved April 5, 2014 .
  5. ^ Afghan presidential candidates agree vote audit. BBC News, July 12, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
  6. ^ What the Afghan power-sharing deal means. BBC News, September 21, 2014, accessed September 25, 2014 .
  7. ↑ n-tv NEWS: Taliban announce "inclusive Islamic government". Retrieved August 15, 2021 .
  8. ^ Afghanistan: President Ghani gives televised address. Retrieved on August 15, 2021 (German).
  9. ↑ tagesschau.de: Live blog about Afghanistan: According to the US embassy, ​​shots at the airport. Retrieved August 15, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Leah Sinclair: Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan president 'flees country'. August 15, 2021, accessed August 15, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Ramy Allahoum: Taliban enters presidential palace after Ghani leaves Afghanistan. Accessed August 15, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Ghani, Ashraf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ghani Ahmadsai, Ashraf (full name); Ġanī Aḥmadzay, Asraf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan politician
BIRTH DATE May 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Logar