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	Afgha.com - Afghanistan risks becoming a narco-mafia state
		Ghani said hopes had been raised when the hardline Taliban were forced from power in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks two years ago, but now Afghanistan was at a crossroads as it waited for the world to deliver.
		Ghani said remnants of the hardline Taliban militia were pouring across the border from neighbouring Pakistan, killing aid workers and deminers and trying to sabotage the reconstruction effort.
		Ghani, a former World Bank official, is respected by Western diplomats as one of Afghanistan's leading reformers.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=37305 (473 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said at the close of a donors conference in Oslo that the results showed that the international community remains committed to Afghanistan even as a new crisis looms over Iraq.
		In addition, Helgesen and Ahmadzai said it is unclear how much of the pledges represent new funds or are included in five years of pledges made at a conference in January.
		Ahmadzai said aid priorities are education, water, sanitation, defense, the civil service, and infrastructure.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/12/18122002175132.asp (271 words)

	Afghanistan News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ahmadzai, speaking to reporters in Tokyo, denied that pressure had been put on anyone not to run for the presidency.
		Ahmadzai was in Japan for talks ahead of a March 31 international donors conference in Berlin.
		Ahmadzai is one of only a handful of professionals in the government.
	www.afghanistan.org /news_detail.asp?16836 (645 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Afghanistan wants more rebuilding funds
		Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai told reporters $4.5bn pledged by the international community last year after the Taliban regime was ousted was not enough to pay for the huge cost of re-building the war-torn country.
		Mr Ahmadzai unfolded plans for a conference to be held in Brussels later this month to raise more money to rebuild the country.
		Mr Ahmadzai said that for the fiscal year beginning 21 March, his country needed $1.5bn for reconstruction projects and an additional $500m for administrative costs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/business/2823557.stm (363 words)

	APAN \| Terrorism \| Press Summaries and Special Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai told reporters on Wednesday (March 5) that US$4.5 billion pledged at a donors conference in January last year was not enough to cover the enormous cost of rebuilding the war-torn country.
		Ahmadzai told reporters the per capita aid for Afghanistan was far less than many recent post-conflict situations such as Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo.
		Ahmadzai said Afghanistan plans to host a donor’s conference in Brussels later this month to raise more funds for reconstruction.
	www.apan-info.net /terrorism/terrorism_press_summary_detail.asp?id=181 (871 words)

	New Zealand News - - Donors pledge $6.7 billion for Afghanistan
		The pledge towards reconstruction and budget costs for the financial year 2004-2005 far outweighs the $4.5 billion over five years period pledged at a 2002 donors' conference in Tokyo, but is dwarfed by an estimated annual bill of $12 billion for the West's military operations in Afghanistan.
		Ghani, clearly delighted 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.buzztracker.org /2004/04/01/cache/132369.html (709 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghanistan to launch fresh bid for funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai told reporters $4.5 billion pledged by international donors at a conference in Tokyo last year after the ouster of the Taliban regime was not enough to pay for the huge cost of re-building the country.
		Ahmadzai said Afghanistan would host a donor's conference in Brussels later this month to raise more reconstruction funds.
		Ahmadzai said that for the fiscal year beginning March 21, the country needed to budget $1.5 billion for reconstruction projects and another $500 million for administrative costs.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/97d4949e9c9b6c93c1256ce0005f11f7 (406 words)

	Afgha.com - Afghan minister says he was fired for presidency bid
		Ahmadzai, in Japan for talks ahead of a March 31 international donors conference in Berlin, said on Tuesday that Mohaqiq would not be missed in the cabinet.
		Ahmadzai is one of the handful of professionals in the government, which is still dominated by the Northern Alliance despite Karzai’s efforts to reduce its power.
		Karzai and Ahmadzai belong to the largest ethnic group of Pashtuns, the traditional rulers of Afghanistan.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=41800 (471 words)

	Kabul needs fast growth, aid to beat poverty -DAWN - Business; June 4, 2003
		He said that to achieve the growth target, the international community needed to give around $15 billion in aid over the next five years, dwarfing the $4.5 billion promised over five years at a donor conference last year.
		Ahmadzai repeated earlier criticisms of the international community for not doing enough to support Afghanistan.
		Ahmadzai has just returned from the western province of Herat where he secured the transfer of $20 million to the state, replaced senior customs officials and established a system for future payments.—Reuters
	www.dawn.com /2003/06/04/ebr15.htm (443 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Snow met with Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai who said earlier that Afghanistan could become a center for organized drug crimes unless the world honors its pledges to the country.
		Ghani told Snow yesterday that one of Afghanistan's major problems is developing trade and attracting skilled workers.
		U.S. officials say Snow told Ghani that Washington is committed to raising funds to rebuild Afghanistan.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/news/2003/09/34A612C4-D057-4CB3-9C46-F070E2D0D095.ASP (124 words)

	Land grab in Kabul embarrasses government
		Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said on Friday President Hamid Karzai would soon take action over the homes of poor families bulldozed in what has been described as a land grab by powerful cabinet ministers.
		Ashraf Ghani Minister of Finance is reported to have said about the bulldozing of people’s homes: "This is unacceptable to people and the president is going to soon be taking decisive action to remove this kind of thing."
		In the war torn country of Afghanistan, this is not the first incident when the powerful are trampling upon the rights of the weak and that in doing so they brazenly use a variety of weapons to achieve their goal.
	www.hewad.com /news1.htm (3746 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		Ghani welcomed U.S. President George W. Bush's request to Congress on Sunday for a further $800 million to support Afghan reconstruction, but said the country needed $30 billion in foreign aid over five years to become self-sufficient.
		There are 11,500 American and allied soldiers in Afghanistan trying to track down remnants of the Taliban and their allies from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
		The erudite Ghani, a former World Bank official, is respected by Western diplomats as one of Afghanistan's leading reformers.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/aa8e81dc17f7b0eb87256c030066e73b/feaeb4b1ec81f26187256d9f00515912?OpenDocument (715 words)

	Ashraf Ghani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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)

	Forbes.com: U.S. treasury chief in Afghanistan to talk aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In a recent interview with Reuters, Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai warned that the country could become a "narco-mafia state" unless the world honoured its promises to support it after the fall of the Taliban regime late in 2001.
		Ghani also asked Snow to speak with Pakistan's Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz to urge Pakistan to consider more open trade.
		U.S. officials quoted Snow as assuring Ghani that the United States was totally committed to raising the funds to rebuild Afghanistan.
	www.forbes.com /business/newswire/2003/09/18/rtr1085116.html (573 words)

	SAE Symposiums: 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The poor judgments of some industrialized Asian cities should be noted and avoided in Afghanistan.
		Ahmadzai spoke about economy, investment, trade, and urban land use.
		Afghanistan has more millionaires than ever before, which suggests that there could be a lot more domestic investors than ever before.
	www.afghan-engineers.org /symposiums/symposiums_1998_print.html (1407 words)

	AFGHANISTAN SATISFIED WITH THE DONORS (Iran Press Service)
		"This is 100 percent of our target", Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai told a news conference at a meeting of over 64 donor nations and specialized organizations from the United Nations in Berlin that promised to provide 4.4 billons staring this year and the rest until 2007.
		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.
	www.iran-press-service.com /ips/articles-2004/april/afghanistan_donors_1404.shtml (1197 words)

	GN Online: Kabul slowly wresting cash from provinces
		Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said a recent cash payment of $20 million from the governor of Herat in western Afghanistan had allowed the defence ministry to finally pay delayed wages to around 100,000 military servicemen.
		The payment has been seen as a key victory in President Hamid Karzai's bid to collect cash and arms from regional power brokers, who are widely seen as a major threat to security and stability in the war-shattered country.
		But he acknowledged that key provinces lying along lucrative trade routes with Iran to the west and Pakistan to the south and east may be reporting only a fraction of their incomes.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=89364 (176 words)

	Asia Times - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai, the head of an influential Pashtun tribal group and brother of Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, has emphatically stated that the changes are of a "symbolic nature and they are not effective" (Radio Free Europe, September 25).
		The lucrative drug trade is a major source of income for warlords and spoiler groups; it fuels corruption, money laundering and crime; and it poses a major health threat by spreading the use of intravenous drug consumption, augmenting the ever-increasing number of drug addicts in the country and fostering the spread of HIV/AIDS.
		Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani has aptly warned that the narcotics trade is "a threat to democracy" that if left unchecked could transform Afghanistan into a "narco-mafia state" (Washington Post, July 10).
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EJ08Ag02.html (8564 words)

	Enduring Mission - ADB Review - ADB.org
		Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Minister of Finance of the Transitional Islamic Government of Afghanistan; and Liqun Jin, ADB Vice-President (Operations 1), inaugurated the new office building.
		He added that it was vital for Afghanistan to revive its private sector as private investors could help with its economic development, the country’s needs being too vast for the funding or development community to manage alone.
		Jin had earlier inspected the progress on the 103.5-kilometer (km) Kandahar-Spin Boldak road project with government officials and project financiers.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Periodicals/ADB_Review/2004/vol36-5/enduring-mission.asp (767 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Call to probe Taleban finance
		The Afghan Finance Minister, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, has called on the international community to do more to investigate the sources of support for the Taleban.
		In a BBC interview, Mr Ahmadzai said the international community should consider whether a foreign government was involved in supporting the Taleban, or whether they gained their support from foreign individuals and groups.
		Mr Ahmadzai said the situation in the south of Afghanistan was dangerous and should be dealt with urgently.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/south_asia/3238086.stm (99 words)

	Forbes.com: Afghan finance minister to seek $25 billion aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was speaking at a round table on the sidelines of a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from Group of Seven wealthy economies at a resort in Florida.
		Ahmadzai also said he was seeking $3.5 billion in budget support over the same time frame.
		Afghan officials, attending a portion of the G7 talks to discuss their war-battered economy and rebuilding progress, are pressing the world's richest nations for more aid ahead of a planned meeting of donors in the spring.
	www.forbes.com /home_asia/newswire/2004/02/07/rtr1250447.html (287 words)

	Afghanistan Seeks More Aid, Warns of Drug State
		At the meeting, Afghan officials were seeking some $1 billion to help fill a gap in the country's development budget for this year.
		Ahmadzai presented donors with Kabul's budget of $2.25 billion for the fiscal year that begins this Friday, including $1.7 billion to rebuild shattered infrastructure.
		Afghanistan's budget for recurrent spending is $550 million, of which the government has said it would raise $200 million, double its revenue from last year.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/867359/posts (918 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prince Karim Aga Khan IV expressed his gratitude at meeting Esteemed Karzai and praised the achievements of the Afghan people under the supervision of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan in a short time, and pledged to start several projects to meet the requirements of the people.
		It should be mentioned that Aga Khan is assisting in projects of civil aviation, telecommunications and hotels.
		The meeting was also participated in by the esteemed deputy head of state Hedayat Amin Arsala and the Minister of Finance Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
	ismaili.net /timeline/2002/20021103ra.html (331 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		While the IMF praised Afghanistan's reconstructions efforts and the introduction of a new currency, the organization's head of mission in Afghanistan, Adam Bennet, said opium production is a "dark cloud" over the progress made, the BBC reported on 23 September.
		Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai agreed with the IMF's assessment of Afghanistan's situation, in which it said the production of opium will dominate the country's economy.
		Without an "infusion of urgency" in donor countries' commitments to help Afghanistan, Ahmadzai said, it could become a "narco-mafia state" (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 20 February, 29 May, and 5 June 2003).
	www.azadiradio.org /en/dailyreport/2003/09/23.asp (486 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He steps in as minister of energy in charge of rebuilding the country’s fractured power sector.
		Karzai also kept Abdullah Abdullah as foreign minister but dropped Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as finance minister.
		Appointed in his place is Anwar Ul Haq Ahady, who was praised by the west for his work in setting up Afghanistan’s central bank.
	www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=8312 (234 words)

	Afghan Voice: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
		Mohaqiq, an ethnic Hazara who fought the Soviets and Taliban, accused Ashraf Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun minister and close ally of Mr.
		Abdullah, Ghani and Jalali (the last one was my colleague briefly at the Voice of America) are all patriotic Afghans.
		Ghani and Jalali left very lucrative lives behind in Northern Virginia to help rebuild their country.
	afghanvoice.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_afghanvoice_archive.html (7060 words)

	The Agonist: Karzai 'to stop officials' land grab'
		Afghan President Hamid Karzai will take measures against ministers in his own cabinet following allegations that they are grabbing land from the poor, the finance minister has said.
		Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said: "This is unacceptable to people and the president is going to soon be taking decisive action to remove this kind of thing."
		On Thursday, a top UN official said Vice-president and Defence Minister Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim and others should be removed from office for grabbing the land.
	www.agonist.org /archives/008203.html (133 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- U.S. sees $2 billion extra aid for Afghanistan
		Karzai's government has complained bitterly that $4.5 billion in promised international aid is not only woefully inadequate but has mostly failed to materialise.
		In a recent interview, Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai warned that the country could become a "narco-mafia state" unless the world honoured its promises to support it after the fall of the Taliban regime late in 2001.
		U.S. officials quoted Ghani as saying during his meeting with Snow that the country's difficulties stemmed from problems in developing trade and attracting skilled workers.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20030918-0711-afghan-usa-snow.html (603 words)

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