Joint Statement from Afghan Presidential Candidates
August 26th, 2009
Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai joins with other candidates to call for national unity and investigation of the widespread election fraud claims.
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Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai joins with other candidates to call for national unity and investigation of the widespread election fraud claims.
Kabul, August 20, 2009 – When the presidential race began there was a deep sense of skepticism as to whether the race would be open and whether any of the issues that the public really cares about would be discussed in debate.
Today we stand at a moment when the Afghan public has proven its capacity [...]
Letter to the London Times newspaper, published Aug. 20, 2009
The success of the Nato-led intervention in Afghanistan hangs in the balance in the elections that begin today. Without a new government committed to restoring the State’s sovereignty and working with the international community to stabilise the country, the insurgency will spiral [...]
One candidate, Ashraf Ghani, has run a genuine, issue-based campaign, lifting the level of debate even as his own chances of success have shrunk. And those who know the country believe that there exists all across Afghanistan, and not just in Kabul, an emerging middle class, which is young, modern-minded, enthusiastic, hard-working and ready to cross the ethnic barriers which would hamper political life even if there were no such thing as the Taliban and no such problem as the insurgency.
Rashid Dostum is the head of Jombesh-e Melli Islami (the National Islamic Movement), a predominantly Uzbek militia that once was a part of the Northern Alliance.
Mr. Dostom spent one year in exile returned to Afghanistan last night. Dostom, warlord, human rights violator and killer, rejoined Karzai corrupted team after he was exiled to Turkey for [...]
“We are in the heartland of the Taliban,” Mr Ghani declares as his helicopter touches down in Qalat, the capital of the province near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan. “You know the governor here was unable to leave his compound for a year.”
More than 15,000 enthusiastic supporters attended rallies in the village of Marko and Jalalabad city, in Nangahar province, in support of Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
Enthursiastic supporters at both events pointed to Ghani’s performance in the second presidential debate as evidence that Ghani has the experience, knowledge, and courage that the Afghan people want in its [...]
Mr. Dostom spent one year in exile returned to Afghanistan last night. Dostom, warlord, human rights violator and killer, rejoined Karzai corrupted team after he was exiled to Turkey for beating a political rival.
The hundreds of men sitting in the mosque were mostly subdued, watching more with interest than passion as Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani spoke of a corruption-free future… “This group was 60 percent Taliban,” Ghani said after the Friday gathering in this town in Zabul province, a center of the Taliban insurgency consuming Afghanistan’s south. To Ghani, his ability to appear unscathed in Qalat was a sign that his policy-focused platform, with its emphasis on ridding Afghanistan’s government of its endemic corruption, appeals to all segments of society.
August 14, 2009, Kabul – More than 15,000 supporters in Bamyan and Zabul cheered Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai at meetings and rallies just six days before Afghanistan’s Election Day. Launching a six-province campaign swing, Dr. Ghani Ahamdzai showed his appeal across ethnicity and communities and his dedicating to uniting Afghanistan by reinstating the rule of [...]