Welcome to The Afghanistan Project, where we cover alltopics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal.

Today, I’m very honored to bring on Ambassador M. AshrafHaidari is the Founder & President of Displaced International (DI) and a former refugee who is now a U.S. citizen. Overcoming significant challenges, he has built a distinguished career as a humanitarian leader and diplomat, with more than 20 years of experience in national and international organizations across multiple continents. His work reflects the values of democracy, rights, liberty, and equality, contributing to both his birth country and the United States. Drawing on his own experiences as a former refugee, he relentlessly advocates for displaced populations worldwide, particularly Afghan P1 and P2 resettlement applicants affected by the USRAP freeze, urging the Trump Administration to grant them an exemption.

Ashraf discusses the origins of displacement and the methods that DI is using to assist refugees on the move around the world, particularly those who have been awaiting assistance in the USRAP program.

Ashraf also tells his own story of life as an internally-displaced person before becoming a refugee and now U.S. citizen.

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On the web: https://displacedinternational.org/

About the host:

Beth Bailey worked in support of Afghanistan operations as acivilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner.

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