... 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...
said on Thursday.
Leader of the Change and Hope Coalitin Dr Abdullah Abdullah criticises President
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... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabanni 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...
of hesitating to condemn the Taliban and says President Karzai's ambiguous comments do not suit a modern leadership.
Pointing to the experiences of the Middle East leaders, Abdullah said leaders who do not address demands of their nations and are totalitarian will face similar fates.
Calling for political change in Afghanistan, Mr Abdullah urges the government to involve Afghans in major political decisions.
Afghanistan's Caped President Karzai has recently said that the Taliban leadership should speak up and make it clear if the one (Zabihullah Mujahid) who introduces himself as its front man is really representing them.
"If Zabihullah Mujahid is not representing the Taliban, then the Taliban leadership should speak out and say he doesn't represent them," said Mr Karzai at a recent presser in Kabul.
Zabihullah Mujahid is the one regularly claiming responsibility for bombings and other bully boy attacks on behalf of the Taliban.
"It means if someone else appears as Taliban's front man and the Taliban leadership suddenly claim that Zabihullah Mujahid is not representing the group, then President Karzai would think that the Taliban have committed no crimes," Dr Abdullah told a news conference on Thursday.
The Afghan people have faced more challenges during the recent years, which Dr Abdullah believes are caused by people's marginalisation and lack of respect to the country's laws.
But an Afghan writer and researcher, Akram Arefi, is of the opinion that Afghanistan has never experience freedom and democracy.
"If we look back at history, Afghans have never witnessed a system based on freedom and democracy," said Mr Arefi.