Posts Tagged ‘ashraf’

How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country

Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was formed in elite American universities, given US citizenship, trained in neoliberal economics by the World Bank, glorified in the media as an “incorruptible” technocrat, and coached by powerful DC think tanks like the Atlantic Council. No individual […]

UAE Says Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Is In The Country

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked protesters Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country’s flag, killing at least one person and fueling fears about how the insurgents would govern this fractious nation. While the Taliban have insisted they will respect human rights unlike during […]

Taliban take control of Kabul and presidential palace, Ashraf Ghani flees

Taliban forces are assuming control of the Afghan capital Kabul and have taken control of the presidential palace, after the country’s president Ashraf Ghani fled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  One of the Taliban’s units shared pictures of the Palace interior – seemingly intact, but empty and abandoned by Afghan officials – on an official Telegram account. […]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees to Tajikistan

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Vice-President Amrullah Saleh flee to neighboring Tajikistan as the Taliban surround the capital Kabul, Afghan local media report. Local news reports suggest that the duo handed over their powers to a transitional council before abdicating their offices.  Before reports of his resignation and fleeing emerged, U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan […]

Ashraf Ghani and the Fate of Afghanistan

On August 11, 2021, Pakistan’s Prime Minster Imran Khan said, “I tried to persuade the Taliban… three to four months back when they came here…The condition is that as long as [Afghanistan’s President] Ashraf Ghani is there, we [Taliban] are not going to talk to the Afghan government.” Three days later, news has arrived that […]

Meet Ashraf Jabari: The Palestinian populist

February 3, 2021 by Orit Arfa – JNS.org Read on for article With a mask resting below his mouth, which just took in its third or fourth cigarette of the last hour, Palestinian reformer and businessman Asharf Jabari said he hasn’t received the COVID vaccine yet. Ashraf Jabari [right] at the “Peace to Prosperity” economic […]

Photo Essay: Gaza buries medic Razan Ashraf Al-Najjar, 21, killed by Israeli sniper

Today, Palestinians mourned the funeral of 21-year-old Rawan al-Najjar, carrying her body with on top her medic vest soaked in blood, in the city of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. Razan al-Najjar was a medic who was shot the day before by an Israeli sniper as she was attempted to reach the injured during the protest […]

President Ashraf Ghani praised India’s contribution to Afghanistan

nsnbc : Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has praised India’s contribution to Afghanistan, emphasizing that the government in Delhi is a good partner and […]

Generational sea change within the Democratic party will also include policy towards Israel

The biggest story to come out of the Democratic caucus in Iowa, beyond Clinton’s razor-thin margin of victory, was the overwhelming generational divide within the party. So far this split has been explained by political differences over health care and income inequality within the Democratic Party, but polling suggests a similar generational divide exists over Israel […]

Methodist divestment highlights Israel’s place in the world

This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. It takes one’s breath away. How far Israel has fallen. But it isn’t just the state of Israel. We Jews have fallen with Israel. With our place among and within the nations […]

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