Abdullah Abdullah (
Dari
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/ ps, عبدالله عبدالله, ; born as Abdullah on 5 September 1960) is an Afghan politician who led the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) from May 2020 until August 2021, when the Afghan government was
overthrown by the Taliban.
The council had been established to facilitate
peace talks
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between the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
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and the
Taliban insurgents
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. Abdullah served as the
Chief Executive of Afghanistan from September 2014 to March 2020,
and as
Minister of Foreign Affairs
A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between coun ...
from December 2001 to April 2005. Prior to that, he was a senior member of the
Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...
, working as an adviser to
Ahmad Shah Massoud
)
, branch = Jamiat-e Islami / Shura-e Nazar Afghan Armed Forces United Islamic Front
, serviceyears = 1975–2001
, rank = General
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.
He worked as an
ophthalmologist
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Followin ...
and
medical doctor in the 1980s.
Abdullah ran against
President Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repu ...
in the
2009 Afghan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 20 August 2009. The election resulted in victory for incumbent Hamid Karzai, who won 49.67% of the vote, while his main rival Abdullah Abdullah finished second with 30.59% of the vote.
The ...
, coming second with 30.5% of the total votes. In 2010, he created the Coalition for Change and Hope, which became the
National Coalition of Afghanistan in 2011
and is one of the leading democratic opposition movements in 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 served as the Chief Executive of Afghanistan.
Following the collapse of the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic that ruled Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021. The state was established to replace the Afghan interim (2001–2002) and transitional (2002–2004) administrations, which were form ...
on 17 August 2021, leader of the Taliban-affiliated
Hezb-e-Islami party
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar met with Abdullah and Karzai in
Doha
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, seeking to form a government. Reports emerged on 25 August that a 12-member council will be formed to govern the
de facto
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newly-reinstated
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reportedly 7 members were already agreed upon: Abdullah himself, Karzai, Hekmatyar,
Abdul Ghani Baradar,
Mohammad Yaqoob,
Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani, and
Hanif Atmar. However, it was later announced that Abdullah Abdullah and Karzai had failed to secure roles in the new government.
Early life
Abdullah was born in the second district of
Kārte Parwān
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in
Kabul
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,
Afghanistan
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.
He is the son of a
Pashtun
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father, Ghulam Mahyyoddin Zmaryalay,
from the Kandahar area, and a
Tajik
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* Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
* Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan
* Tajik (surname)
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mother from Panjshir. His early years were split between living in
Panjshir Province
Panjshir (Dari: , literally "Five Lions," also spelled as Panjsher) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country containing the Panjshir Valley. The province is divided into seven distri ...
,
Kandahar
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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. His father was a senator during the final years of
King Zahir Shah's rule.
Abdullah has seven sisters and two brothers.
His nephew was
Mohammad Fahim Dashty
Mohammad Fahim Dashty ( 1973 – 4 or 5 September 2021) was an Afghan journalist, politician and military official. In 2021, he served as spokesman of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan during the Republican insurgency in Afghanistan.
B ...
, the spokesman for the
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan during the
Panjshir conflict
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.
Until he became a government minister, Abdullah had
only a first name; demands from Western newspaper editors for a
family name led him to adopt the full name "Abdullah Abdullah". Abdullah is married, and has three daughters and a son.
Education and medical career
Abdullah graduated from Naderia High School in 1976. He studied
ophthalmology
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a med ...
at
Kabul University's Department of Medicine, where he received an
MBBS in 1983. After graduating, he worked for several months as a resident ophthalmologist at the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation (NOOR) hospital in Kabul.
Then he moved to Pakistan, where he worked in the Syed Jamaluddin Afghan Eye Hospital for Afghan Refugees in
Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
for more than a year.
Early political career
In 1985, Abdullah returned to Afghanistan to join the resistance against the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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and made his way to Panjshir.
In September, he became the head of the Health Department for the Panjshir Resistance Front, coordinating treatments and health care for the resistance fighters and the civilian population.
He became a close associate and adviser to
mujahideen commander
Ahmad Shah Massoud
)
, branch = Jamiat-e Islami / Shura-e Nazar Afghan Armed Forces United Islamic Front
, serviceyears = 1975–2001
, rank = General
, unit =
, commands = Mujahideen commander during the Soviet–Afghan ...
.
After the fall of the
communist government in 1992, the
Peshawar Accord established the
Islamic State of Afghanistan
The Islamic State of Afghanistan ( fa, , ''Dawlat-i Islāmī-yi Afghānistan'', ps, , ''Da Afghanistan Islami Dowlat'') was the government of Afghanistan,
established by the Peshawar Accords on 26 April 1992 by many, but not all, Afgh ...
with a
provisional government
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led by
Burhanuddin Rabbani. Abdullah was appointed chief of staff and spokesperson of the
Ministry of Defense.
On 27 September 1996, the
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pas ...
seized power in Kabul and 90% of the country, with military training support by
Pakistan
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, and established the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Following the Taliban takeover of Kabul, the
Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...
, also called the United Islamic Front, was created under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Massoud. The Northern Alliance was supported by Russia, Iran and India. Abdullah became the United Front's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Islamic State of Afghanistan elements of the United Front, including the Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud and the Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, remained Afghanistan's internationally recognized government. The Taliban government was recognized by only three countries –
Saudi Arabia
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,
Pakistan
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, and the
United Arab Emirates
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.
In early 2001, Abdullah traveled with Ahmad Shah Massoud to Brussels, where Massoud addressed the
European Parliament
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asking the
international community
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As a rhetorical term
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to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.
Abdullah translated when Massoud stated that the Taliban and
al-Qaeda
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had introduced "a very wrong perception of Islam" and that without the support of Pakistan and
Bin Laden
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, the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.
Modern Afghanistan
Foreign ministry
In October 2001 the Taliban regime was overthrown by
Operation Enduring Freedom including American and
United Front
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forces. As a result of the
International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn in 2001, Abdullah was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Interim Administration in December 2001.
In November 2001, a diplomatic crisis unfolded when the British government, without any forewarning or seeking permission from the Northern Alliance, flew members of the British
Special Boat Service to
Bagram. Abdullah was "apoplectic" as he considered the uninvited arrival to be a violation of sovereignty, and complained bitterly to the head of the
CIA field office, threatening to resign if the British did not withdraw. British
Foreign Secretary
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Jack Straw
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tried to reassure the Northern Alliance that the deployment was not a vanguard of a British peacekeeping army, but Northern Alliance leaders did not believe them; with the threat of the Northern Alliance opening fire on incoming
Royal Air Force
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troop transports, the deployment was put on hold.
Following the
2004 Afghan presidential election
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, Abdullah was one of the few people who kept their position from the Transitional Government and was re-appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs for another year. In 2005 he resigned his position.
2009 presidential election
On 6 May 2009, Abdullah registered as an Independent candidate for the
2009 Afghan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 20 August 2009. The election resulted in victory for incumbent Hamid Karzai, who won 49.67% of the vote, while his main rival Abdullah Abdullah finished second with 30.59% of the vote.
The ...
, running against incumbent president
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repu ...
. Abdullah selected as his running mates Humayun Shah Asefi as his First Vice President and Dr. Cheragh Ali Cheragh (a surgeon from Kabul who is a practicing
Shi'i Muslim) as Second Vice President. Afghanistan has an
executive structure featuring two
vice president
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s, a First VP and a Second VP, to help ensure a stable government by attempting to provide ethnic and religious balance to senior government leadership positions. Unofficial and non-certified electoral results were announced during the day on 16 September 2009, showing that Abdullah was in second position with 27.8% of the total votes cast. President Karzai did not achieve the 50.01% vote majority required to avoid a runoff election. A large number of fraudulent ballots, mostly belonging to Karzai's camp, were disallowed by the Independent Afghan Electoral Commission. Karzai came under intense international political and diplomatic pressure from international leaders because of allegations of large-scale fraud. Hamid Karzai eventually agreed to participate in a designated head-to-head runoff election (held between the contenders with the two largest numbers of total votes in the first election) which was scheduled nationwide for 7 November 2009.
On 1 November 2009, Abdullah announced that he had decided to withdraw from the runoff election, citing his lack of faith in the President Karzai government's ability to hold a "fair and transparent" second election process. Subsequently, Hamid Karzai was declared the winner by the Afghan Electoral Commission (essentially winning by default).
National Coalition of Afghanistan
After the 2009 Afghan Presidential Elections, Abdullah created the Coalition for Change and Hope (CCH). The NCA presented the leading democratic opposition movement against the government of Hamid Karzai.
In the 18 September 2010 parliamentary election, the Coalition for Change and Hope won more than 90 seats out of 249 seats, becoming the main opposition party.
As a result, it is assumed that the new Parliament will introduce some checks and balances on the Presidential power.
Regarding the
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pas ...
insurgency and Karzai's strategy of negotiations Dr. Abdullah stated:
In December 2011, the
National Coalition of Afghanistan, supported by dozens of Afghan political parties and led by Abdullah, was formed to challenge the government of President Hamid Karzai. Major figures associated with the coalition include
Yunus Qanuni
Younus Qanooni ( prs, یونس قانونی, born on 10 May 1957 in Panjshir Valley) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik, Qanooni is the leader of the '' Afghanistan e Naween'' (New Afghanistan) politi ...
(the former head of the Afghan Parliament), Homayoon Shah-asefi (a former presidential candidate and leader of the monarchist party with ties to the family of former king Mohammed Zahir, Noorolhagh Oloumi (a senior political figure in the former Afghan communist government),
Ahmad Wali Massoud (a younger brother of
Ahmad Shah Massoud
)
, branch = Jamiat-e Islami / Shura-e Nazar Afghan Armed Forces United Islamic Front
, serviceyears = 1975–2001
, rank = General
, unit =
, commands = Mujahideen commander during the Soviet–Afghan ...
) and several current Members of Parliament.
Massoud Foundation
Abdullah has been the Secretary General of the Massoud Foundation since June 2006. The Massoud Foundation is an independent, non-aligned, non-profitable and non-political organization established by people who have been affected by the life of Massoud. It provides humanitarian assistance to Afghans especially in the fields of health care and education. It also runs programs in the fields of culture, construction, agriculture and welfare.
2014 presidential candidacy
On 1 October 2013, Abdullah officially announced his nomination for the
presidential election held on 5 April 2014. On 13 April, BBC News reported that the counting indicated that Abdullah had thus far received 44.65% of the vote, with
Ashraf Ghani following behind with 33.6%. Abdullah and Ghani were then bound to compete in a
run-off election
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in June 2014.
The results of that election remained in dispute through until September 2014, with Abdullah claiming the government and the national electoral institutions manipulated the results. Pressure from the United States on the two candidates to resolve their differences, and to negotiate a power-sharing deal were initially agreed to, but Abdullah later remained defiant. A UN-led audit failed to sway Abdullah as he insisted the audit team could not explain a million extra votes counted in the run-off. Ghani supporters insisted they wanted to do a deal with Abdullah, and said they were leaving the door open to negotiations.
On 19 September, the
Independent Election Commission announced Ghani the winner.
Five hours later, Abdullah and Ghani signed a power-sharing agreement, with Ghani being named president and Abdullah taking on an important position in the government; the deal was signed in front of the presidential palace, with incumbent president Hamid Karzai in attendance.
[ Part of the deal stipulated that the Independent Election Commission would not release the exact vote totals of the second round of voting.][
]
Chief Executive (2014–2020)
Following a close loss to Ashraf Ghani in the second round of the 2014 election, Abdullah became Chief Executive, a newly created position that encompasses prime ministerial powers. Serving as Chief Executive, Abdullah has actively met with international business leaders and politicians alike, seeking foreign investment and support. He has further sought to implement a number of ceasefires with the Taliban. Citing mistrust of the Taliban, Abdullah has taken a somewhat more hardline stance against the Taliban movement than his presidential counterpart Ashraf Ghani, noting a number of failed attempts at long-term peace. In April 2019, Abdullah opted not to attend the Consultative Peace Jirga, noting that the Jirga was unlikely to resolve any issues.
2019 presidential election
Incumbent Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah registered as a candidate for the 2019 Afghan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019. According to preliminary results, which runner-up Abdullah Abdullah appealed against, incumbent Ashraf Ghani was re-elected with 923,592 votes, 50.64% of the vote. After de ...
. Abdullah selected Enayatullah Babur Farahmand as his First Vice President and Asadullah Sadati as Second Vice President.
After the election results showed that Ashraf Ghani was declared as the winner, Abdullah declared himself winner as well, sparking a political crisis and leading him to publicly state that he would form a parallel government. On 9 March, both Abdullah and Ghani took the presidential oath of office at separate inauguration ceremonies. The United States pressured the Afghan government to come up with a solution by cutting $1 billion of aid. This, with mounting international pressure and the threat of the Taliban, forced officials to strike a deal between Abdullah and Ghani. The deal left President Ghani in charge of executive power and created the High Council of National Reconciliation. Mr. Abdullah is head of the council, where he will lead peace efforts with the Taliban.
High Council for National Reconciliation (2020–2021)
On 17 May 2020, a deal was reached where Abdullah was to lead the country's High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) as a chairman. Moreover, HCNR was given the authority to handle and approve all affairs related to the Afghan peace process. The Council held its first meeting in December 2020, several months after its official creation, despite having incomplete membership and power struggles.
Following the collapse of the Republican government and Abdullah's meeting with Hekmatyar, the political fate of the HCNR remains unclear.
On 1 September 2021, Taliban representatives said that they had approached former president Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repu ...
and Abdullah. The representatives said that the Taliban was "ready to recruit them" but said that Karzai was unlikely to be part of the government as they do not want "old horses". As for Abdullah, the Taliban showed a different approach saying that he was the "least controversial."
Taliban takeover and subsequent activities
In February 2022, Abdullah was placed under house arrest
In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence. Travel is usually restricted, if ...
by the Taliban in Afghanistan. On May 4 2022 he was allowed to leave Afghanistan for India to be with his family during Eid al-Fitr. He returned to Afghanistan on June 11.
References
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in the European Parliament
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