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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Mohammad Omar Daudzai (Pashto: محمد عمر داودزی‎ - born October 12, 1957) is a leading Politician in Afghanistan, most recently having served as the Minister of Interior during the challenging 2014 electoral year (September 2013 to October 2014). He is credited for ably managing the security arrangements of the two rounds of 2014 elections, and the risk of post-election violence. After a career with international non-governmental organizations including the United Nations Development Program in Geneva, Daudzai started work as two term Chief of Staff of Afghan President Hamid Karzai from 2003 to 2005 and then from 2007 to around 2010. From 2005 until 2007, President Karzai appointed him as Afghan Ambassador in Iran. He then served as Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, tasked with advancing efforts to reach a political solutions to the war in Afghanistan. Noted amongst the strong potential successors to President Karzai, in September 2013 he was asked to serve as Afghan Minister of the Interior in Kabul and instead ensure security for the elections.Known for being a key operative of the post-2011 Afghanistan, Daudzai's influence in Afghanistan's politics is a product of taking on some of the challenging tasks under President Karzai that required tactful management. The Atlantic profiled him as: "A soft-spoken former aid worker, Daudzai served as the president’s liaison to the many warlords and strongmen he had to keep in check—both to ensure stability and to secure his reelection in 2009. While Daudzai was once associated with the conservative Hizb-e-Islami party, the 56-year-old...is more pragmatic in his worldview. When Karzai made an ultimately unsuccessful push for reconciliation with the Taliban in 2011, he dispatched Daudzai as his ambassador to Pakistan. To express his displeasure with the Americans, who tried to oust him during his 2009 reelection campaign, Karzai replaced Daudzai as chief of staff with Abdul Karim Khurram, a conservative former culture minister with an anti-American reputation."Since the formation of the National Unity Government in Afghanistan, Daudzai has left official office ( December 2014) and continues to work in Afghanistan's politics through supporting youth groups, and mobilizing politically influentials people and organizations in support of strengthening the country's democratic order. He has also emerged as a critic of President Ashraf Ghani's unbalanced regional diplomacy and pursuit of unilateral closeness to Pakistan—arguing in a NYT oped that "rather than expect a miraculous U-turn from Islamabad, Mr. Ghani’s government would do better to use its resources, and the international community’s continued support, to concentrate on its main purpose: consolidating the Afghan state.""@en }

• Mohammad_Omar_Daudzai abstract "Mohammad Omar Daudzai (Pashto: محمد عمر داودزی‎ - born October 12, 1957) is a leading Politician in Afghanistan, most recently having served as the Minister of Interior during the challenging 2014 electoral year (September 2013 to October 2014). He is credited for ably managing the security arrangements of the two rounds of 2014 elections, and the risk of post-election violence. After a career with international non-governmental organizations including the United Nations Development Program in Geneva, Daudzai started work as two term Chief of Staff of Afghan President Hamid Karzai from 2003 to 2005 and then from 2007 to around 2010. From 2005 until 2007, President Karzai appointed him as Afghan Ambassador in Iran. He then served as Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, tasked with advancing efforts to reach a political solutions to the war in Afghanistan. Noted amongst the strong potential successors to President Karzai, in September 2013 he was asked to serve as Afghan Minister of the Interior in Kabul and instead ensure security for the elections.Known for being a key operative of the post-2011 Afghanistan, Daudzai's influence in Afghanistan's politics is a product of taking on some of the challenging tasks under President Karzai that required tactful management. The Atlantic profiled him as: "A soft-spoken former aid worker, Daudzai served as the president’s liaison to the many warlords and strongmen he had to keep in check—both to ensure stability and to secure his reelection in 2009. While Daudzai was once associated with the conservative Hizb-e-Islami party, the 56-year-old...is more pragmatic in his worldview. When Karzai made an ultimately unsuccessful push for reconciliation with the Taliban in 2011, he dispatched Daudzai as his ambassador to Pakistan. To express his displeasure with the Americans, who tried to oust him during his 2009 reelection campaign, Karzai replaced Daudzai as chief of staff with Abdul Karim Khurram, a conservative former culture minister with an anti-American reputation."Since the formation of the National Unity Government in Afghanistan, Daudzai has left official office ( December 2014) and continues to work in Afghanistan's politics through supporting youth groups, and mobilizing politically influentials people and organizations in support of strengthening the country's democratic order. He has also emerged as a critic of President Ashraf Ghani's unbalanced regional diplomacy and pursuit of unilateral closeness to Pakistan—arguing in a NYT oped that "rather than expect a miraculous U-turn from Islamabad, Mr. Ghani’s government would do better to use its resources, and the international community’s continued support, to concentrate on its main purpose: consolidating the Afghan state."".