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| Kapisa Residents Endorse Abdullah |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [Tolo News] Front-runner 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 welcomed by thousands of supporters in Kapisa for his campaign rally. During the event, Dr. Abdullah praised the residents of Kapisa for their huge turnout in the first round of elections and asked that they go to the polls for a second time with that same firm determination. Dr. Abdullah proclaimed that with the endorsements of political figures to his team, their chance of winning continues to increase. He asked Kapisa's residents to partake on June 14 and exercise their right to vote and elect their future president. Former presidential candidate Gul Agha Sherzai ...former governor of Kandahar province. the Taliban got their start protecting people against him... accompanied Dr. Abdullah in Kapisa explaining that his endorsement for Dr. Abdullah's team was only to serve his country. "We were not offered any position," Sherzai said. "I am a Mohammedan and an Afghan and I swear that I was not offered a provincial seat, directorate or ministry position." |
| Posted by:Fred |