Abdullah (Afghanistan)
| Abdullah Abdullah داکتر عبدالله |
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| Chief Executive of Afghanistan | |
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Assumed office 29 September 2014 |
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| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Deputy |
Mohammad Khan Rahmani Mohammad Mohaqiq |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 22 December 2001 – 20 April 2005 |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai |
| Succeeded by | Rangin Dadfar Spanta |
| Leader of the National Coalition of Afghanistan | |
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Assumed office 18 March 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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| Born |
5 September 1960 Kārte Parwān, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
| Political party | National Coalition of Afghanistan |
| Spouse(s) | Fakhria Abdullah (1993–present) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Kabul University |
| Religion | Islam |
| Website | Official website |
Abdullah Abdullah (Persian/Pashto: عبدالله عبدالله, born September 5, 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 Doctor of Medicine during the late 1990s.
Abdullah ran against President Hamid Karzai in the Afghan presidential election, 2009, 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. 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.
Abdullah was born in the second district of Kārte Parwān in Kabul, Afghanistan. His early years were split between living in Panjshir Province, Kandahar, and Kabul, where his father was serving as an administrator in the land survey, and subsequently the audit section of the Prime Minister's office. He is the son of a Pashtun father from the Kandahar area, and a Tajik mother from the north. He has seven sisters and two brothers.
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