Hashim

Hashim Thaçi is the President of Kosovo. He was the first Prime Minister of Kosovo and the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the new cabinet led by Isa Mustafa, which assumed office on 12 December 2014. Thaçi was also the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo. He rose to prominence as the political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a paramilitary organisation which was active during the Kosovo War. In the meantime, he also served as head of a provisional government towards the end of and immediately after the war in 1999.

Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf (Arabic: هاشم بن عبد مناف‎) (died ca. 497) was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Ali ibn Abi Talib (the first Shia Imam & fourth Sunni Caliph). He also was the originator of the Banu Hashim clan of the distinguished Quraish tribe in Mecca. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)