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| Ghani Campaigns in Kandahar |
| 2014-03-29 |
| [Tolo News] While speaking to supporters in Kandahar province on Friday, presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai promised to bring peace, better schools and reliable electricity to the province. Ashraf Ghani said he would reconstruct the province's now defunct hydroelectric dam and develop agriculture throughout Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul. The presidential hopeful that added if he is elected he would turn Kandahar into a regional and global transit hub. Ashraf Ghani spoke about the releasing of Bagram prisoners, which President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has received criticism over in recent months. "A few years ago, I promised to release innocent Bagram prisoners and I did," Ashraf Ghani said. "Now, we will release the remaining innocent prisoners." Deputy Head of Mahaz-e-Millie Said Hamed Gillani also spoke at the event and called Ashraf Ghani's campaign platform the solution for Kandahar's problems. "Leadership in Afghanistan has always come from Kandahar," Gillani said. "Once again I ask you to vote for Dr. Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002, Ahmadzai was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Ahmadzai. Ashraf Ghani's platform includes the attracting Afghan immigrants back to Afghanistan, bolstering national unity among the nation's various ethnic groups and establishing open elections for city mayors. |
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