Abdullah Abdullah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Abdullah Abdullah

Afghan politician

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1960

Place of Birth: Kabul, Afghanistan

Profession: politician, diplomat, ophthalmologist

Nationality: Afghanistan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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About Abdullah Abdullah

  • Abdullah Abdullah (Dari/Pashto: ??????? ???????, born 5 September 1960) is an Afghan politician, serving as Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan since September 2014.
  • From October 2001 to April 2005, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
  • Prior to that he was a senior member of the Northern Alliance working as an adviser to Ahmad Shah Massoud.
  • He also worked as a medical doctor during the late 1990s. Abdullah ran against President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghan presidential election, coming in second place with 30.5% of the total votes.
  • In 2010, he created the Coalition for Change and Hope (now the National Coalition of Afghanistan), which is one of the leading democratic opposition movements in Afghanistan.
  • In 2011, the coalition was transformed into the National Coalition of Afghanistan.
  • He ran again in the 2014 presidential election and went to the second round with 45% the total vote.
  • His closest rival, Ashraf Ghani, had secured 35% of the total vote.
  • Due to signs of fraud, the results of the second round were heavily contested and led to a deadlock.
  • Despite the controversy regarding the results of the second round of elections, the final certified result by the Independent election commission of Afghanistan shows that Ashraf Ghani received 55.3% of the votes while Abdullah Abdullah secured 44.7% of the vote.
  • After months of talks and US mediation, the two candidates established a national unity government in which Abdullah serves as the Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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