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| Endorsements Keep Rolling For Abdullah |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [Tolo News] A number of public leaders and political parties joined the ranks of those backing presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... on Friday. The running mate of former presidential candidate and President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's brother, Qayoum Karzai, was among them. With only a few days left for the runoff campaigns, the endorsements Dr. Abdullah received this week came at a critical time as he and his opponent Dr. Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002, Ahmadzai was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Ahmadzai head into the home stretch of this year's presidential election. Wahidullah Shahrani, Qayoum Karzai's First Vice President, was perhaps the most high-profile individual to endorse Abdullah on Friday. "I, personally, and with a number of the Turks of Afghanistan, announce my full support to Dr. Abdullah and will stay alongside him until the end," Shahrani said. But a number of prominent political parties with influence across the country also joined Abdullah's cause. Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Party, under the leadership of Mohammad Akbari; Shuray-e-Etefaq Wa Dawat, under the leadership of Kahlid Pashton; and Shuray-e-Ayenda Sazan Afghanistan and Shrayy-e-Sulh Warzesh, under the leadership of the Afghan Olympic Committee Chair Mohammad Zahir Akhbar were among the groups that announced endorsements Friday. "After series of consultations, we decided to support Dr. Abdullah and his two vices, engineer Mohammad Khan and Mohammad Mohaqeq," Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Afghanistan leader Mohammad Akbari said. Abdullah's Second Vice-President Mohammad Mohaqeq welcomed the endorsements and urged Afghans to participate in the June 14 runoff as they did for the first round on April 5. |
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