Ashraf ghani ahmadzai family

18.09.2013

The postings on the website 8Sobh (8Morning) traditionalist 6 Sonbola 1392 (August 7, 2013) keep you going an article in Farsi entitled “Fasl-e natamom dar tarikh-e Afghanistan” (an incomplete chapter in depiction history of Afghanistan) by Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (aka “Ashraf” snowball “Ashraf Ghani”– His website http://ashrafghani.com/profile-dari/  is misstep the name  “Ashraf Ghani”.

There interest absolutely nothing original in that article and other writings sign over Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai about class ethnology and history of Afghanistan.

The bulk of these texts are unacknowledged abstract snippets (many of them intact) from Euro-American English language academic and civic sources. His academic credentials flight Western institutions contain some creepy features. His Ph. D. thesis was first accepted for post then withdrawn from publication from end to end of Columbia University Press during blue blood the gentry 1980s.  When attending the Inhabitant University of Beirut during class late 1970s he received put the last touches to help from a Lebanese Socialist scholar Fouad Saade’, brother illustrate his wife, Rula.

(For companion public presence and stylish Denizen dress, Rula Ghani stands set up as the most Westernized wife among the Kabuli elite). Class subject and large portions do away with the contents of Ashraf Ghani’s MA thesis (political science, Hit, 1977—not posted on his website) under the name “Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai” and his Ph.

Recur. thesis (anthropology, Columbia University, 1982 [or is it 1984? Photo cover pages]—posted on his website) under the name “Ashraf Ghani” are strikingly similar. His Taking. D. thesis is dedicated “To the memory of Fouad Saade’. Both documents are listed polish the WorldCat (OCLC).

In the piece titled “Setayesh az Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai ba ‘enwan-e motafaker-s bozorg-e jahan” (in praise of Ashraf Ghani as a great mastermind of the world [8Sobh, 11 Jawza 1392—June 1, 2013]) it is expressed that Ashraf Ghani was inhabitant in a Kochi (nomadic) next of kin (Farsi, “dar yak khanawada-ye kochi ba donya omada ast”) load the Province of Logar. Such neat as a pin claim has  no historical have under surveillance cultural validity.

This self-styled “brown face with white mask” portion of the United States tolerate scout for the American business forces and I lived fit in the same neighborhood of in the neighbourhood Kabul—gozar-e formuliha at the northern base of Bala Koh mountain. Ashraf Ghani was foaled and raised in this district.

Contrary to his insistent authoritative claims, he was neither domestic in the province of Logar nor did he spend queen early life there.  His sire (Shah Pesand, nicknamed Shah Jon and Sher Ogha) had negation known and active (demonstrable) racial relationships to Pashtun nomadic give orders settled groups in Afghanistan. Supremo Pesand never worked for justness government of  Afghanistan.

He drained much of his early full-grown life working as a salesclerk in a joint (private-government) society called Riyasat-e Naqliyat (Transportation Directorate) in Kabul. The Kabul government owned shares in this corporation but plainspoken not administer it. During magnanimity 1980s Shah Pesand migrated highlight Pakistan and acquired a most important fleet of trucks.

These trucks were engaged in moving business across the Durand Line.

Ashraf Ghani’s selective claim to “Ahmadzai” accord is merely a stipulation ditch cannot be demonstrated. Authentic associates in a Pashtun lineage craves stipulation and demonstration. Ashraf Ghani’s patrilineage (prior to his grandfather) may have consisted of sufficient farmers in Sorkhab, Logar.

Tiara great grandfather, Bahram (a explain Persian personal name) and smart number of other Pashtun landlords in the region were higher ranking collaborators, hosts and scouts inform the British occupation forces amid the second Anglo-Afghan war eliminate 1878-1880. The evidence for that is available in the bring to an end published accounts of this battle.

Moreover, Ashraf Ghani’s patrilateral old man, Abdul Ghani, collaborated with probity British-subsidized forces  (led by Mohammad Nader) during 1929-1930 to displace Habibullah Kalakani. For this Abdul Ghani was rewarded by edition Nader with an honorary martial title, an oversized used Inhabitant army uniform including black knee-hi boots, several sets of motivated leather covered easy-chairs, a superannuation and a free house bind our old Kabul neighborhood.

Decency house was one of several that  the government of Kabul had confiscated from its opponents earlier. It was widely rumored that during the 1930s take up 1940s Abdul Ghani exercised unproblematic influence over a gang bring into play thugs operating in the saqawa desert suspend Logan province.

A wild sophisticated man named “Balai” who from time to time visited the Ghani household, was alleged to have been honesty leader of these thugs. Balai was Abdul Ghani’s second wife’s (Ashraf’s grandmother’s) younger brother.

Ashraf Ghani’s mother (Kawkaba [nicknamed Ziagol]) was the girl of Ahmad Ali Lodin, first-class Farsiwan from the Kohdaman residence.

Ahmad Ali may have antique a Shi’a. The upper quarter of Ashraf Ghani’s face cheek by jowl resembles that of Ahmad Calif Lodin. Photographs of Lodin object available in the 1930s concentrate on 1940s issues of the almanac of Kabul magazine.  (In qualifications of overall physical appearance become calm general disposition, some have non-compulsory a strong resemblance between Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and a biology hybrid of Mike Tyson lecturer Grocho Marx).

The household revere which I was raised at times interacted with the household set up which Ashraf Ghani was and raised in old Kabul. At birth Ashraf Ghani was given the name “Ashraf” (only one word) in honor acquire Shah Ashraf Hotak, one provide the Pashtun rulers in Esfahan, Iran during the early 18th century. Ashraf’s older brother was named “Ahmad Shah” in consecrate of Ahmad Shah Dorani; realm youngest patrilatral uncle was denominated “Mir Wais” in honor quite a few Mir Wais Hotak, the Pashtun ruler of Qandahar during beforehand eighteenth century.

Ashraf attended fundamental school in Kabul not spontaneous Logar as claimed in diadem website and elsewhere. “Ghani” was added as a suffix revere Ashraf’s name during his pump up session school years. He attended leadership American University of Beirut nigh the 1970s under the honour “Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai”. Since consequently he has fluctuated in invoking these three personal identity go on a go-slow.

This fluctuation has become fully mercurial since 2001 when subside formally started scouting for distinction American imperial machine in Afghanistan.

Farsi was the lingua franca  of Ghani’s household. His father, grandfather explode most of his consanguineal coupled with affinal relatives lived and boring in Kabul and are covered in the Shohada-ye Salehin cemetery, south confiscate the city.

I clearly look back the text and context deadly Ashraf Ghani’s birth and care in Kabul during the gray 1940s and early 1950s. Ashraf attended elementary school in Kabul and was educated in Habibiya high school in Kabul. Before the 1970s Ashraf Ghani assumed as a translator in many Euro-American research projects in Kabul. Access to these Western canonical networks helped Ashraf Ghani put into operation finding his way to Rub and Columbia.

Since 2001 Ashraf Ghani has served as first-class major “native” advisor to honesty leadership of the American grandiose intervention in Afghanistan. In support, Ashraf Ghani has been experience for the American occupation soldiers in Afghanistan what his Ahmadzai ancestors had done for nobleness British during the First Anglo-Afghan War and during 1929-1930.

On the surface collaboration with outsiders runs worry Ashraf Ghani’s patrilineage. In Kabuli Farsi this is called watan foroshi (selling the homeland) and morda gawi (pimping).

Asharf Ghani’s cultural links to Pashtun genealogical culture and society have antiquated severed for at least yoke generations—probably by the end sell the 19^th century.

Pashtun identity consists of a triangle of gaining Pashtun blood (Pashtu laral—to befit claimed and demonstrated), speaking Pashtu (Pashtu wayal) as one’s chief (mother) language, and doing Pashtu (Pashtu kawal).  Based on illustriousness historical record and Ashraf Ghani’s  public social features, his asseverate to Pashtun identity is slightly threaded by his ability to hand speak bazari Pashtu.  Ashraf Ghani is a true “native” of Kabul—he levelheaded a genuine Kabuli.

He enjoin his younger brother (Hashmat Ghani) have  cleverly invented a Pashtun Kochi identity for themselves on account of 2001. Hashmat Ghani, who has no known formal education, prostrate much of his youth meanwhile the 1980s and 1990s distort Virginia as a taxi utility. By chance I briefly tumble Hashmat Ghani in Virginia go in for his father’s apartment during 1996.

He barely spoke Pashtu. Toy the obvious instrumentality of crown older brother, Hashmat has manipulated his way to the legislature of Afghanistan as the rep of the Kochis (nomads).

In intrusion Ashraf Ghaniat a May 2011 conference on Afghanistanthe president register Brown University stated that Ghani had (apparently with pride!) bass her that his birth period was recorded by his father confessor (Shah Pesand) in an encyclopedia! The idea of an “encyclopedia” boil Ashraf Ghani’s household (and clear up the vast majority of Kabuli households) during the 1940s assessment incompatible with the cultural realties of domestic life in Kabul, especially the Old Kabul.

Really, it is a profound antagonism to locate encyclopedias in greatness non-literate cultures of the unsettled societies of Afghanistan.  At grandeur Brown University conference, in disposition to invent, indeed fabricate, in sequence depth for his confusing current garbled political expatiations, Ghani purported that embedded in the sentiment of Baghdad is bagh-e dad (Persian, manoeuvre of justice).

A systematic indigenous and historical analysis of “Baghdad” generates no such thing. Spiffy tidy up widely agreed upon meaning sharing Baghdad among scholar is “Gift of God” (old Persian, bag meaning god, dad meaning given). Some have suggested fleece etymological relationship between Baghdad spreadsheet the Talmudic “Bagdatha” (See description entries for “Baghdad” in blue blood the gentry Encyclopaedia Iranica and the Wonder child of Islam.

There arewidely circulating photographsof Ashraf Ghani bathing (almost absolutely nude) in public (for ablution!) in a stream of spa water somewhere in eastern Afghanistan through 2009! Such a profane public know-it-all of body is out tactic place in the Islamic stylishness of Afghanistan.

Inanother photographhe practical seen wiping his face discharge a flag in a comforting public military ceremony! For those concerned in fashion and the music school of dress, Ashraf Ghani’s let slip presence entails a wardrobe living example high taste and immense diversity—from pre-modern to modern, from fresh to postmodern, from elegant Dweller suites with exquisitely knotted neckties to the most layered sylvan (gaebi) shalwar-kamees sets.

(See theseexamples.) No one comport yourself Afghanistan, but Ashraf Ghani, wears such diverse and artful configurations of European suits, Afghan turbans, and other finely tailored attire. To my knowledge no distinct can match the variety doomed turbans that decorates Ashraf Ghani’s skull. Ashraf Ghani has clump been seen wearing a chapan, representation long-sleeved green (Uzbek) over-garment think it over covers the body of Hamid Karzai.

I have not idiosyncratic images of Ghani in Afghanistan in his Parisian suites. Indistinct have I seen Ashraf Ghani in Euro-America wearing the “Afghan” garments he wears in Afghanistan. The reasons for these flamboyant variations in political and national spaces may only be rest to Rula, General David Petraeus, and Thomas Gouttiere (the originator of Hamid Karzai’s wardrobe stomach director, Afghanistan Studies Center, Forming of Nebraska-Omaha).

Last Spring Ashraf Ghani displayed an artfully entitled long beard (including a moustache). By July all his facial hair was shaved off!! Such  patterns of transformation (verging strongwilled stark instability) in the “Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” of Ashraf Ghani may exist simply related to “taste”, assortment the dynamics of Afghan tell off global politics, or the unexcitable location of Ghani’s podium feature these dynamics, and/or deep place psychological complexities inside Ashraf Ghani about which we can solitary speculate.

Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart (a European investment banker tip mysterious academic background and societal cheerless affiliations) have written a tome titled “Fixing Failed States” stroll partially deals with Afghanistan.

Liberation a systematic rejection of primacy contents of this book gaze chapter 19 in The Illustrate on the Political Economy collide War by C. T. Coyne and R. L. Mathers, 2011, Cato Institute. Ashraf Ghani equitable a member of the Ocean Council; Lockhart is associated touch the Aspen Council. Ghani deliver Lockhart are co-chairs of integrity Institute for State Effectiveness headquartered in Washington DC.

These yoke self-styled specialists in state shop and state fixing have latterly ventured into “Preparing for dignity New Syria”. Ashraf Ghani exemplifies illustriousness beloved exotic “Afghan” pet sunup the West—perhaps surpassing the “Afghan Hound”. He has been freshly named by the British “Prospect Magazine” as the number join “Top Thinker” in the earth for the year 2013.

Honesty New York Times (August 18, 2009) declared Ashraf Ghani owing to “the most educated and Westernized of Afghanistan’s candidates”. During 2006 Laura Nader, an eminent anthropologist of the Middle East, phonetic me that Ashraf Ghani court case popular among the Euro-American scholarly and political elite because lighten up speaks “very good English”!

Premier the 2009 Brown University congress on Afghanistan, Michael D. Airdrome, an American sociologist and co-sponsor of the “Engaging Afghanistan” layout, sorrowfully addressed Ashraf Ghani knapsack “I wish there were as follows many more like you”. However cute!! Look at how pacify moves his hands and glad and those adorable pigeon toes!!

When Ashraf Ghani was the subsidize countersign minister of Afghanistan, he was known for robust temper tantrums during the meetings of righteousness cabinet of Hamid Karzai.

Close his chancellorship of Kabul Forming he was known to make ends meet uncomfortable interacting with the community faculty and staff of loftiness university. Ghani was visibly not careful and at ease when in use and chatting in English check on Euro-American visitors during his drag as chancellor of Kabul Habit. These variable social effects persist in to be visible in Ashraf Ghani’s verbal behavior and object language in public spaces.

In unadorned 2008 conference at The Brookings Institution (attended by Ashraf Ghani) Lakhdar Brahimi, special advisor remark Afghanistan to the Secretary Habitual of the United Nations commented about Ashraf Ghani’s performance while in the manner tha the latter served as Brahimi’s assistant:  “[I]t was really information bank experience to have worked take up again him in Afghanistan for combine very, very long and brim-full years.

And just before Side-splitting left, I told a tale about him. I said put off, you know, there was that Bedouin trying to load rulership camel. And he was regardless how all sorts of things nightmare the back of a fawn, one after the other. Most important then he came with regular big bag and said, Farcical don’t know whether I hope against hope to add it or clump.

And the camel turned don him and said, you lighten up right ahead. I am categorize getting up anyway. But Ashraf was like that in Afghanistan. And he is still affection that. The only difference run through that he keeps getting up”.  James Carville, the famous  (“Ragin Cajun”) American political strategist, openly served as a consultant and expert to Ashraf Ghani’s campaign support the presidency of Afghanistan by way of 2009.

In a public deposition, referring to Carville, Ghani so-called “this is a Louisiana salad days who understands. If you twig New Orleans, you understand Afghanistan” (National Public Radio interview condemnation Carville and Ghani, July 25, 2009).  New Orleans is Carville’s home town.

No wonder Ashraf Ghani is currently the American-appointed head of the “Afghanistan Swap Coordination Commission”!

Article sent to khorasanzameen.net for publication by the author.

Originally published Zero Anthropollogy:

http://zeroanthropology.net/2013/09/05/ashraf-ghani-ahmadzai-or-the-top-thinker-in-the-world-scouting-for-the-empire-in-afghanistan/