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	Ashraf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashraf Mohamed Ben Qaitbay was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1496 to 1497 and 1497 to 1498
		Ashraf Khan was ruler of Afghanistan from 1725 to 1729
		Ashraf Lutfi was Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries from 1965 to 1966.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashraf (343 words)

	Online NewsHour: Afghan Alternatives -- October 9, 2001
		ASHRAF GHANI: It's a series of movements across the Pashtun built from southern to eastern Afghanistan, men who are leaders of fifty to one thousand men in groups are making decisions to distance themselves from the Taliban.
		ASHRAF GHANI: What is in place is the beginning of the dialogue with the former king and the relationship between Northern Alliance and the king.
		ASHRAF GHANI: He's rather silent, which again is posing a problem and is giving the Taliban actually the opportunity to claim that they are speaking for the nation.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec01/afghan_10-9.html (1885 words)

	Online NewsHour: Inside Afghanistan -- September 28, 2001
		ASHRAF GHANI: There are a very large number of Arabs who first fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and subsequently a lot of these people have left their own countries in belief of an internationalist agenda of building a very puritanical type of Islamic state.
		Ghani, before we leave the Northern Alliance specifically, tell us a little more about it and about the ethnic groups in Afghanistan and who is in the Northern Alliance and who isn't and the significance of that.
		ASHRAF GHANI: Basically because the government of Pakistan, until these events, was the sole major military supporter and strategic supporter of the Taliban and made it its agenda to eliminate the Northern Alliance as a military power.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/afghan_9-28.html (2026 words)

	Global Agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ashraf Ghani works 17-hour days, seven days a week and has not had a weekend off for as long as he can remember.
		Ghani says that by October 2004, the country should have an 18,000-strong national police force and the government is working to speed up the pace of training these police.
		Ghani says that he expects at least 10 banks to be operating in the market by the end of 2004, the majority of which will be international.
	www.globalagendamagazine.com /2004/ashrafghani.asp (2639 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Afghan Minister Warns of Short Window for Stabilization
		Ghani, who left Afghanistan in the 1970s and only returned last year to take up his current job, said that he saw three possible scenarios for the future of his nation.
		Focusing on the poor, Ghani asserted that Afghanistan has the lowest rate of energy consumption and the highest rate of child mortality in the world.
		He also addressed the issue of education, especially for girls, and Ghani said that currently 40 percent of all enrolled students are female.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=347400 (629 words)

	USATODAY.com - Afghanistan's new financial leaders have huge 'to do' list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ghani, who left Afghanistan in 1979, was working for the World Bank after nearly a decade as an anthropology professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
		Ghani is trying to fix the finances of a country that expects to collect $83 million in revenue the fiscal year that ends March 20 and spend $460 million in the same period, with foreign aid making up the difference.
		To raise revenue, Ghani must negotiate with regional warlords, such as Ismail Khan in the western city Herat and Abdul Rashid Dostum around the northern city Mazar-e-Sharif, who are known for refusing to turn over to the central government the customs duties they collect on trade in their regions.
	www.usatoday.com /money/markets/world/2002-08-25-afghans_x.htm (1217 words)

	AsiaSource Interview with Ashraf Ghani
		Ashraf Ghani is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
		In this interview with AsiaSource, Dr Ghani discusses the American war in Afghanistan, the exclusion of the Taliban from the talks held in Bonn, and the composition of the interim administration in Kabul.
		You said in an earlier comment for the Financial Times that the US can act either quickly or wisely in response to the attacks of September 11; the former would entail dealing with the symptoms of terrorist movements while the latter would address the underlying causes.
	www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/ghani.cfm (1539 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghanistan gets 47 million dollar debt relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ghani said Britain, Italy, Japan, Norway and Sweden had chipped in to the tune of 47.3 million US dollars to clear outstanding payments to worldwide financial institutions including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
		Ghani stressed that poverty-stricken Afghanistan was still deeply in debt to the financial institutions but said that these debts would be cleared through long-term annual payments.
		Ghani said Afghanistan still owed more than 90 million US dollars, much of it borrowed long before the 1980s Soviet invasion of the country.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/2d4df81daa9b76e249256cca000cab40 (267 words)

	Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
		That is enormous, this taking a country into the future." Ghani was initially introduced to Karzai by Karzai's brother, Baltimore restaurateur Qayum Karzai, and eventually, Ghani became one of the then-interim leader's most influential advisers.
		Ghani, a native of Afghanistan who taught for four years at Kabul University, fled the country during the Soviet invasion of 1979, taking a teaching position at Hopkins in 1983.
		Last fall, just a month after the September 11 attacks, Ghani captivated an audience of Hopkins faculty, staff, and students when he returned to campus to offer his perspectives on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
	www.jhu.edu /as1/website/aboutksas/publications/update/fall02/atq/rebuild.html (190 words)

	Print Article: Afghan pledges $A11b over three years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ghani said $US4.4 billion ($A5.9 billion) had been promised for this year alone.
		Ghani said he was "delighted" that the donor community - particularly the United States, Europe and Japan - had "very generously" committed money to his country.
		Ghani said ongoing costs of security in the war-ravaged country, much of which is controlled by warlords with private armies, would eat up three billion dollars over the new aid pledged here.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/04/01/1080544606051.html (434 words)

	News India-Times.com, Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ashraf Ghani, a special adviser to Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nation’s secretary general’s special representative on Afghanistan, said the first phase was the interim government set up on Dec. 22.
		Ghani said within each phase there was a series of mechanisms.
		Ghani said Afghans were not formally educated but were incredibly aware and were quick learners.
	www.newsindia-times.com /2002/01/11/usa-experts.html (1004 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Afghanistan to Pay Farmers for Uprooted Poppies
		Ashraf Ghani, a senior adviser to Hamid Karzai, the chairman of the interim government, said that agents of the Afghan government would fan out across three Afghan provinces thought to produce about 90 percent of the country's opium.
		Ghani said that if the farmers refused to destroy their crops, the government was prepared to do the job for them.
		Ghani and Yunus Qanooni, the interior minister, said that the Karzai government was determined to eliminate poppy farming as a viable occupation.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread12445.shtml (1112 words)

	Johns Hopkins Magazine
		SAIS lecturer Ashraf Ghani in June was tapped by Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, to serve as that country's finance minister.
		Ghani had already been coordinating the estimated $1.5 billion in foreign aid that has been pledged to help Afghanistan rebuild in the wake of last winter's bombings and spring's earthquake.
		Ghani was introduced to Karzai by Karzai's brother Qayum, a Baltimore restaurateur whom Ghani befriended during a chance meeting at dinner more than a decade ago.
	www.jhu.edu /~jhumag/0902web/wholly2.html (2938 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Afghanistan destroys opium tonnes
		The government's senior Economic Adviser, Ashraf Ghani, said they were in major discussions with the European Union and Britain in particular on aid.
		Mr Ghani said they were discussing the export of crops like cumin and saffron to the EU, and looking at labour intensive development schemes and alternative sources of rural credit.
		Mr Ghani stressed that the compensation would be for this year only, and the government also wanted to help farmers elsewhere who have not grown opium and who are often much poorer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/south_asia/1940916.stm (630 words)

	mohaqiq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mohaqiq, an ethnic Hazara who fought the Soviets and Taliban, accused Ashraf Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun minister and close ally of Mr.
		Senior Afghan officials said that during the convention Dr. Abdullah, who stayed in Afghanistan during the fighting, pushed for a requirement that no cabinet minister be able to hold dual citizenship, as do Mr.
		Abdullah resigned at one point over the citizenship issue, but withdrew his resignation when a compromise was reached, senior officials said.
	www.hazara.net /news/pressRel/mohaqiq/mohaqiq.html (553 words)

	Online NewsHour: Coping with Change -- April 16, 2003
		ASHRAF GHANI: Well, the evidence of that is that Gen. Franks was in Kabul.
		ASHRAF GHANI: Their reaction is going to be twofold.
		ASHRAF GHANI: The first thing, of course, is to know the differences.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/jan-june03/ghani_04-16.html (980 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Foreign donors meet, pledge $8.2b to rebuild Afghanistan
		Ashraf Ghani said he was "delighted" with the pledges, made after President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan appealed to officials from more than 50 countries to help his war-ravaged country support itself and confront the threat from private militias.
		Ghani said donors met Afghanistan's target for this year and covered more than two-thirds of its expectations over the next three years.
		A senior State Department official said Ghani's figure for the coming year included $2.3 billion from the United States, assuming Congress approves $600 million of that.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/04/01/foreign_donors_meet_pledge_82b_to_rebuild_afghanistan (541 words)

	VOA News Report
		Ghani says donor representatives meeting in Kabul this week agreed the Afghan government will take the lead in deciding how that money is spent.
		The Afghan government is in charge of the developmental agenda, and all the donors have accepted that this process should, as it must, be led by the government.
		Ghani says some countries have already begun making payments on their aid pledges, and he feels confident the country will be able to meet its financial needs over the coming year.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/04/mil-040423-2ae882d8.htm (300 words)

	Ashraf Ghani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I think it deserves emphasis that the least amount of assistance is coming from Muslim countries to this country which has been at the forefront of freeing the world from the evils of communism and then terrorism, and I hope Muslim solidarity will come." [1]
		Season for terror, treachery - opinion piece by Diana West in The Washington Times Ashraf Ghani is no longer the finance minister.
		This page was last modified 11:17, 26 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashraf_Ghani (108 words)

	Washington File
		Washington -- Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani said March 31 he is "delighted" at the international response to Afghanistan's appeals for assistance at a donors' conference in Berlin.
		Press reports from Berlin quote Ghani as saying that donors have promised Afghanistan $4.4 billion during the coming year and $8.2 billion during the next three years to support its efforts to become a secure, democratic state.
		Afghan Finance Minister Ghani told Reuters that the aid priorities had changed since the first donors' conference was held in Tokyo in January 2002.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/03/mil-040331-usia02.htm (580 words)

	EurasiaNet Q & A
		EurasiaNet editor Justin Burke spoke with Ashraf Ghani, a leading expert on Afghan development issues and an adjunct professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, about the state-building challenges in Afghanistan.
		Ghani: That they will take their own logic, become extended and become routine — like the 1991 Western campaign in Iraq.
		Those are going to be absolutely crucial in terms of establishing a direction on which you can build, or that forces and relationships would be put in place which would be extremely difficult to change subsequently.
	www.eurasianet.org /eurasianet/departments/qanda/articles/eav101001.shtml (962 words)

	AfghanChat, Afghanistan, Afghan, Afghanistan News, Afghanistan Map, Afghanistan War, Afghan Music, Afghanistan Travel, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tuesday March 9, Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani said Tuesday that his country will work to double its national income in the next decade, a goal he said could make it possible for the country to manage its economy without relying on foreign assistance.
		Ghani also said his country hopes international donors will make multiyear pledges of aid, coupled with commitments of cash assistance for the year ahead, when they meet at a two-day conference in Berlin from March 31.
		Ghani, who met with Japanese cabinet ministers on Monday, said Japan is "currently considering the nature of the commitment that it will be making, and we are very much looking forward to their decision."
	www.afghanchat.com /article741.html (965 words)

	AFGHANISTAN SATISFIED WITH THE DONORS (Iran Press Service)
		Karzai, in a closing speech, thanked the donors and expressed satisfaction with the results of the two-days conference and reiterated that his country could be self-reliant and peaceful within a decade, if the international community remains committed to funding its reconstruction after decades of war.
		Ghani stressed the aid would cut the West's military bill by contributing to Afghanistan's stability.
		Ghani said the international community had made a further promise of $8.2 billion over the next three years, short of Kabul's hoped-for $11.9 billion, but with the potential to rise.
	www.iran-press-service.com /ips/articles-2004/april/afghanistan_donors_1404.shtml (1197 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan's finance minister, writes in the Financial Times that the first battle for a stable Afghanistan has been won: registering and voting peacefully in massive numbers, the Afghan people demonstrated their readiness for democracy.
		Having lost $240 billion between the communist coup of 1978 and the fall of the Taliban in November 2001 (a World Bank estimate of war damage and opportunity cost), Afghans now have high expectations for infrastructure and services.
		The New York Times meanwhile reports that President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday in his first speech since he was declared the official winner of the election to bring security and stability to his people.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/0D904F2C3BF620AA87256F4700339B1E?OpenDocument (910 words)

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		Ghani Khan, a son of the legendary prophet of peace and non-violence, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan holds characteristics of the poetry of Ghani".
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	Ashraf Ghani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ashraf Ghani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ashraf Ghani is (A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south) Afghanistan's finance minister.
		He has complained that post- (A fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government) Taliban Afghanistan hasn't received "any major contribution from our Arab brothers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/as/ashraf_ghani.htm (107 words)

	Islamabad, Kabul to hold JMC in July -DAWN - Business; 14 May, 2004
		This was decided at a meeting between Ashraf Ghani, Finance Minister of Afghanistan and his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz here on Thursday.
		Ashraf Ghani proposed construction of Ghulam Khan-Khost road.
		Ashraf Ghani said Kabul had earmarked $80m to upgrade customs facilities to improve revenue generation and encourage formal trade with neighbours.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/14/ebr4.htm (397 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghanistan criticises lack of aid from Muslim nations
		Ghani has repeatedly said Afghanistan needs 30 billion dollars in aid and investment over the next five years to avoid turning into a "narco-mafia state." He said the United States, European Union, Japan and Canada were the country's main donors.
		The new EC aid mainly covers reconstruction of the road from Kabul to the Pakistan border at Torkham, public sector reform, rural development and help for returned refugees.
		Ghani said the first disbursements of money to villages under Kabul's National Solidarity Programme would start this week.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/0ef3e07e2ba6bc1c49256df7000b4164 (489 words)

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