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| Sibghatollah Mujadidi Endorses Ashraf Ghani |
| 2014-05-23 |
| [Tolo News] On the first day of runoff campaigning Former Afghan president Sibghatollah Mujadidi announced his support for presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. Mujadidi said he had decided that the other 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... , was not the right person for the position of president. "For days and nights I was wondering which candidate to support, so after collecting information and consideration, I decided to support Ashraf Ghani," he said on Thursday. The decision came the same day Ahmad Zia Masoud, the former running mate of presidential candidate Zalmai Rassoul ... former foreign minister and a very close confidant of Hamid Karzai. Before serving as foreign minister Rassoul also spent seven years laboring as a national security adviser to the president. An ethnic Pashtun born in Kabul, Rassoul was the valedictorian of his class at the illustrious Franco-American school in Kabul, Lycee Istiqal. He has an MD from the Paris Medical School in France..... , announced his endorsement of Ghani. Masoud's decision deviated from Rassoul's public endorsement of Abdullah last week. |
| Posted by:Fred |