About the firm

Who We Are

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Afghan interpretation, translation, cultural intelligence, compliance, identity verification, tax, and AI data — from Washington, D.C., across 24 Afghan languages.

Ariana Nexus is a Washington, D.C. institutional orchestration firm: a professional services and management consulting firm that delivers Afghan interpretation and certified translation, cultural intelligence, language-access compliance, identity and document authentication, accounting and tax, and Afghan-language AI data across 24 Afghan languages, Pashto and Dari first. The firm works across six industries and is Afghan-led and Afghan-operated; every engagement is produced in-house by a graduate-level team and reviewed by an independent Cultural Compliance Bureau before release.

How we work

Three governed layers, one structure. Every engagement is produced in-house, under NDA, by credentialed, clearable staff. No subcontractors; one engagement, one point of accountability.

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The Human Intelligence Collective

Credentialed subject-matter authorities across medicine, law, policy, AI, and linguistics govern mandate interpretation, escalation control, and domain judgment where institutional consequence cannot be delegated.

02

The AI Data Factory

Governed pipelines for annotation, validation, human-in-the-loop review, red-teaming, and cultural hallucination auditing convert Afghan-context complexity into governed data operations. Every workflow produces an audit trail.

03

The Cultural Compliance Bureau

Independent review, attestation, and documentation integrity verify that outputs meet Afghan cultural, linguistic, and regulatory conditions before institutional deployment. Attestation, not advisory.

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Governed layers

5

Validation gates

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Operating standards

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Why Ariana Nexus

  • Afghan-led and Afghan-operated, with an operating leadership trained at Ivy League universities and practitioners holding degrees from Brown University, Cornell University, Milli University, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, the University of British Columbia, the University of Chicago, and West Chester University.

  • Trained, college-graduate interpreters only, matched to language, dialect, region, and gender. Bilingual is not a qualification here.

  • No offices or operations in Afghanistan, and nothing routed through channels controlled by the de facto authorities: a compliance and security line, held deliberately.

Category

Institutional orchestration firm. By classification, a professional services and management consulting firm — NAICS 541611, with 541930 secondary.

Registrations

SAM.gov active · UEI M2UDMUDFXGL9 · CAGE 1Z3A3. A registered federal contractor.

Where we operate

Headquartered in Washington, D.C. Every engagement is delivered from the D.C. office, across the United States and internationally.

Industries Ariana Nexus Serve

Ariana Nexus works across six industries, in the United States and internationally. Each sector has its own regulators, its own evidence standards, and its own vocabulary — so interpretation, translation, cultural review, and data work are delivered inside the industry that buys them, never as a generic language service.

Technology, AI, and Digital Platforms

Pashto and Dari training data, LLM evaluation and cultural red-teaming, and AI governance advisory for platforms and frontier labs operating in low-resource Afghan languages.

Pashto training data · Dari speech dataset · RLHF Pashto · LLM evaluation low-resource languages · cultural red-teaming · AI governance advisory
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Healthcare and Life Sciences

Qualified Pashto and Dari medical interpreters, certified translation of vital documents, and Section 1557 language-access programs documented to survive an audit.

hospital interpreter services · Pashto medical interpreter · Dari interpreter · Section 1557 language access plan · informed consent translation · CLAS standards
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Government and Public Sector

Credentialed, clearable Pashto and Dari linguists, resettlement and asylum operations, identity and document authentication, and diplomatic interpretation for agencies and prime contractors.

Pashto linguists for government · clearable Afghan linguists · DLITE Pashto · OSINT Dari · ORR language services · prime contractor teaming
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Legal, Regulatory, and Justice

Court and asylum interpretation, certified translation of tazkira and civil records, Afghan document analysis, and expert testimony for U.S. counsel.

Pashto court interpreter · certified tazkira translation · EOIR interpreter Dari · Afghan document expert witness · Afghan name screening KYC
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Education and Research

School-district interpreters and family-facing translation, cultural training for staff, and academic and policy research partnerships across the Afghan diaspora.

Pashto school interpreter · IEP meeting interpreter Dari · parent notification translation · Afghan survey translation · interpreter certification
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Private Enterprise

Bookkeeping, payroll, tax filing and ITIN support, business formation, and certified financial translation for Afghan-owned businesses and employers with Afghan workforces.

Afghan tax preparer · Pashto speaking accountant · Dari speaking tax preparer · ITIN application help · Afghan owned business accounting
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Publications on Afghan languages, healthcare, and compliance

Reports and reference guides for the healthcare systems, government agencies and data teams working with Afghan communities.

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Healthcare systems
Afghan Patient Access and Retention in U.S. Health Systems

Afghan Patient Access and Retention in U.S. Health Systems

Why Afghan patients stop returning to U.S. health systems, what that costs in missed visits, compliance exposure and staff time, and what correct language matching changes.

Edition
2026
Length
28 pages
For
Language-services directors
Language and data
Afghan Language Governance in Healthcare, AI, Law Enforcement and Cross-Border Data

Afghan Language Governance in Healthcare, AI, Law Enforcement and Cross-Border Data

The 24 languages of Afghanistan and how each sector must identify, handle and transfer them — in clinical settings, in AI systems, in law enforcement, and across borders.

Edition
2026
Length
For
Compliance, data and language-access leads
Government and procurement
Ariana Nexus Institutional Profile

Ariana Nexus Institutional Profile

How Ariana Nexus is built, the three-layer operating model, the practice lines, the standards every engagement is held to, and the leadership behind them.

Edition
2026
Length
42 pages
For
Contracting officers, primes
Full research is distributed to Ariana Nexus clients and partners on request.
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The people behind Ariana Nexus

A standing credentialed collective across AI, law, healthcare, compliance, and research, operating under one institutional boundary. Built for environments where consequence cannot be delegated.

Hassan Ukasha, Managing Partner, Ariana Nexus
Managing Partner

Hassan Ukasha

Founded Ariana Nexus to build the institution the work required — one that holds AI, consulting, law, compliance, research, and education to a single standard.

Education
B.S.
Cornell University
M.P.H.
Cornell University
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Zeba Haqbani
Portrait pending
Infrastructure

Zeba Haqbani

Senior Partner

Education
B.Sc.
University of British Columbia
Tamana Ghaznawi
Portrait pending
Healthcare Systems

Tamana Ghaznawi

Senior Partner

Education
B.S.
Cornell University
M.P.H.
Cornell University
Maryam Safi
Portrait pending
Research

Maryam Safi

Principal

Education
B.A.
Cornell University
Wasil Peroz
Portrait pending
Institutional Law

Wasil Peroz

Principal

Education
B.A.
Milli University
M.Sc.
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Shukria Sakhi
Portrait pending
Cultural Compliance

Shukria Sakhi

Engagement Manager

Education
B.S.
Brown University
M.P.H.
Brown University
Hussain Ahmad
Portrait pending
AI & Data Engineering

Hussain Ahmad

Analyst

Education
M.Eng.
Cornell University
Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Diana Ayubi
Portrait pending
Mental Health Programs

Diana Ayubi

Engagement Manager

Education
B.A.
Cornell University
Psy.D.
West Chester University

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