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| Qayoum Karzai Drops Out, Endorses Zalmai Rassoul |
| 2014-03-06 |
| [Tolo News] Afghan presidential candidate Qayoum Karzai has ended his bid and thrown his support behind former Foreign Minister 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..... , sources close to Karzai said on Wednesday. The official announcement is expected within 24 hours, the sources added. The news comes after efforts to form a coalition between Qayoum Karzai and Rassoul failed last week despite initial signs that one of the candidates might fold his campaign in favor of the other. Qayoum Karzai - the brother of current Afghanistan's Caped 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... - and a number of participants of the Jirga that was held to discuss the possible coalition last week announced on Friday that the campaign would continue uninterrupted. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... it was made clear during the course of the Jirga's negotiations that President Hamid Karzai did not want to see his brother contest the April election. |
| Posted by:Fred |