ENG - Dr. Ramazan Bashardost (Dari داکتر رمضان بشردوست) is Afghanistan's former Planning Minister, current Member of Parliament and an Independent Candidate in the upcoming Presidential Elections.
Early years
Ramzan Bashardost an ethnic Hazara born in 1965 in Qarabagh District, Ghazni Province of Afghanistan in a family of a respected Government employees. He completed his primary and intermediate education in Qarabagh and later in Maimana, capital of Fariyab in northern Afghanistan. Months after the 1978 coup d'etat, Bashardost left Afghanistan for Iran. He finished high school in Iran and then immigrated to Pakistan.
In 1983, he left Pakistan for France where he spent over 20 years, earning degrees in law and political science. In 1989 he enrolled at Garonable ...
KABUL - Former Afghan planning minister Ramazan Bashardost lives year-round in a tent opposite parliament and is now mounting a campaign for president that many people consider quixotic and hopeless.But he says he's not the crazy one. It is his former government colleagues who drive fancy imported cars and live in ostentatious mansions paid for with money intended to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans who he says are truly insane."In Afghanistan, values for some people is luxury, corruption and bodyguards. When an MP refuses this kind of life, they say I'm crazy!" Bashardost told Reuters in ...
pibi - in poll Ramazan Bashardost Inside the Tent of an Honest Man
There are 44 candidates in the upcoming Afghan presidential elections. The list, published last week by the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan, includes: people who were part of the pro-Soviet Afghan Communist regime of the 1970s and 1980s; people were active in the 1990s Afghan civil war; ex-Taliban member Mullah Rocketi; and several disillusioned members of the current government. The list is long but it could have been longer had certain others – including charmless ex-Minister of Interior Jalali or chameleon ex-Minister of Finance Ahadi ...
pibi - in poll Ramazan Bashardost