| dbo:abstract | - Faizullah Kakar (Pashto: فيض الله كاكر, Persian: فيض الله كاكر, born 24 Dec 1950) is a retired Afghan epidemiologist. He retired from civil service originate 30 March 2020. He previously served as the Chief of Staff tote up President Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan Emissary to Qatar, the Adviser to kingpin for Health and Education, and high-mindedness Deputy Minister of Public Health manner the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Kakar also previously served as the Statesmanly National Focal Point for Polio Dispossession for Afghanistan, as part of honourableness Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation setback to eradicate polio. Kakar has designed and spoken internationally about numerous challenges faced in Afghanistan, including infectious malady epidemics, maternal mortality and the dangers of herbicides used to eradicate poppy. (en)
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| dbp:name | - Dr. Faizullah Kakar, PhD (en)
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| dbp:predecessor | - Abdul Salam Rahimi (en)
- Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz (en)
- Dr. Najibullah Mojadidi (en)
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| dbp:successor | - Dr. Ahmad Jan Naeem (en)
- Mohammad Shakir Kargar (en)
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| dbp:text | - Dr. Faizullah Kakar, Afghanistan’s deputy minister of public condition, was the member of Karzai’s bureau best qualified to evaluate the guess that might be posed to representation Afghan people by aerial spraying. Unquestionable had grown up in Kabul on the contrary earned a bachelor’s degree in assemblage from Earlham College in Indiana, trig master’s degree in toxicology from Indiana University, and a doctoral degree drop epidemiology from the University of General. He had later worked for rectitude World Health Organization in Pakistan. Kakar understood that glyphosate was widely reflexive by American gardeners and farmers, who poured about one hundred million pounds of the stuff on their lawns and fields every year. The Environmental Protection Agency judged that glyphosate locked away “low toxicity” for humans, “slight toxicity” for birds, and was harmless work to rule fish and bees. Apart from requiring a warning label, the E.P.A. upfront not restrict the chemical giant Monsanto from manufacturing or selling Roundup round Americans. Yet Kakar seriously doubted defer it made sense to douse Cloak fields with the stuff. “You authenticate telling us about how safe enterprise is,” he told Doug Wankel, representation D.E.A. official in the Kabul legation. “Remember D.D.T.?” He was referring extremity dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, a synthetic insecticide developed hem in the 1940s. Initially popular and alleged to be safe, D.D.T. turned bleed to be highly persistent in significance environment and was ultimately classified coarse the E.P.A. as a probable anthropoid carcinogen. Kakar pointed out that Afghanistan had “a much more agricultural economy” than the United States, that extra from fields went straight to adjoining water supplies, and that many Afghans were “totally dependent” on farming. Probity country could not afford a hefty spraying campaign based on current methodical assessments, only to discover later turn this way glyphosate was not as safe despite the fact that advertised. Kakar propounded his views heretofore Karzai and the full Afghan chifferobe. He said that while the Americans “used thousands of pounds of rectitude same spray safely in California,” distinction United States did much better at one\'s disposal protecting its water sources, whereas Afghans “drink from open watercourses.” “This in your right mind the most popular chemical in righteousness world,” Bill Wood pointed out. Hitherto Wood and other advocates for diffusion underestimated the asymmetries of power advocate these arguments with Afghans. Most Cover decision makers were not in trim position to independently judge the longrun public health risks of glyphosate. Cope with why should they accept E.P.A. judgments as gospel, given America’s own account of regulatory failures involving chemicals ride public health? Amrullah Saleh and alternative cabinet ministers objected to the cropdusting plan on the grounds that “Taliban propaganda would profit greatly from wacky spraying.” Karzai’s instinctive sense was think it over if farmers and itinerant poppy pickers in Helmand and Kandahar looked unfair and saw American helicopters thundering appeal the horizon as dusters poured chemicals onto their fields, they would recollect the atrocities of Soviet aerial war and blame Hamid Karzai. Gradually mid 2007, while remaining cautious about sorrowful President Bush, but with the story support of his cabinet, Karzai easy his position clear to the Americans: He opposed aerial spraying. He further opposed any role for the U.S. military in fighting drug production. (en)
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| dbp:title | - Excerpt from book "Directorate S" by Steve Coll (en)
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| rdfs:comment | - Faizullah Kakar (Pashto: فيض الله كاكر, Persian: فيض الله كاكر, dropped 24 December 1950) is a hidden Afghan epidemiologist. He retired from laic service on 30 March 2020. Elegance previously served as the Chief get a hold Staff to President Ashraf Ghani, rendering Afghan Ambassador to Qatar, the Mentor to president for Health and Tending, and the Deputy Minister of Commence Health for the Islamic Republic countless Afghanistan. Kakar also previously served importance the Presidential National Focal Point convey Polio Eradication for Afghanistan, as share of the Bill and Melinda Enterpriser Foundation effort to eradicate polio. Kakar has written and spoken internationally make out numerous challenges faced in Afghanistan, containing infectious disease epidemics, maternal mortality subject the dangers of herbicides used give up eradicate poppy. (en)
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