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The Afghan government is failing to deliver on its promises

25th September, 2018 · admin

Eisa Khan Ayoobi via Al Jazeera: The NUG is struggling with containing the Taliban and addressing internal divisions – [Ghani’s] intra-Pashtun clan politics seems to have made reaching out to the Taliban more difficult. The Taliban leadership are Durrani Pashtun from Kandahar who take pride in being the descendants of “conventional” Afghan rulers like Ahmad Shah Durrani.

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Opinion/Editorial, Political News, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ahmad Shah Durrani, Ashraf Ghani Government, Ethnic descrimination, Ethnonationalist, Pashtuns |
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Afghan Ethnopolitics Jeopardizes US National Security

16th August, 2018 · admin · 1 Comment

Eisa Ayoobi via The Globe Post:  Ashraf Ghani and Zalmay Khalilzad have been the most influential Afghan-Americans to impact U.S.-Afghanistan relations over the decades. Their education and Washington-based experience have earned them rhetoric sway and a vastly influential network of friends. However, their ethnonationalism-aspired Afghanistan “vision” has cost the U.S. thousands of lives and “trillions of

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, History, Opinion/Editorial, Political News, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ethnonationalist, Pashtunization, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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New Afghan ID cards, aimed at unifying the country, are doing the opposite

11th March, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

The Washington Post: The fight over the “e-taskira,” as the biometric card is known, has dragged on since Ghani took office in 2015. No one has come to blows yet, but heated political battles over whether and how to identify cardholders by ethnicity and “nationality”— a term commonly used here to mean one’s tribe — have disrupted

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ethnonationalist, Pashtunization |
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Another Provincial Governor Defies Dismissal Orders from Afghan President

18th February, 2018 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News February 18, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s political crisis deepened Sunday when a second provincial governor defied a presidential order for his removal. On Saturday, President Ashraf Ghani’s office approved and announced the appointment of new heads for five provinces, including Samangan in the north, as part of efforts to improve local Afghan

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Political News | Tags: Abdul Karim Khedam, Abdul Latif Ibrahimi, Ashraf Ghani, Ethnonationalist, Jamiat-e-Islami, Pashtunization, Samangan |
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Ashraf Ghani: ‘Philosopher king’ or ethnonationalist?

6th February, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Al Jazeera: While Ghani has systematically forced non-Pashtun leaders out of the unity government, he has surrounded himself with Pashtun ethnonationalist leaders. Ghani has also appointed a handful of Pashtu-speaking advisors and has given them full access to government resources and decision-making authority within the Presidential Palace. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, Opinion/Editorial | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ethnonationalist, Pashtunization, Pashtuns |

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