Presidential Elections

[Kushan Prince]

I just read that ashraf ghani named dostum as his vp lol

I heard that too. Now i am defiantly not supporting Ghani, but i heard dostum dropped out?

[randolph85]

I heard that too. Now i am defiantly not supporting Ghani, but i heard dostum dropped out?

he is supposedly the leader of his party but in the last year i read that there were disagreements within the party, i don't know if it was between him and sayyafs 2nd vp but all is not well in uzbek land. things are moving fast, ismail khan had always been close to abdullahs coalition but joined sayyaf and dostum was just until a week ago close to abdullah but was apparently not pleased with the coalition and has jumped ship. ashraf ghani just seems desperate, he will get more uzbek votes than pashtun votes.

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

Do you have some information who was his real father?

His real father was a poor man from Panjshir.

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

He resigned from parliament so he was part of democracy , doing the shirk so this is not conversion just going deeper into democracy for a higher level post.

Indeed Sayyaf did commit shirk.

[Bost Bastan News]

Abdullahs real father died and his mother was married to guy in Kabul who claimed to be Barakzai. Abdullah is 100% panjsheri.

Abdullah Abdullah´s father was a Kandahari Dehqan from Farsiwan branch whose was the son of a Pashtun mother (Tokhi, probably of Kuchi descendt) and a Dehqan father. His father was a Darbari working for Zahir Shah Baba. Abdullah´s mother is from Panjshir of Hisa Duwumi district and belongs to an old aristocratic Pashtun family of the region belonging to Tarzi remnant. Oemar Tarzi, currently living in Turkey, is related with Abdullah Abdullah and somehow Abdullah is related with Afghan writer Khaled Husseini but don´t ask me how and why. I don´t know it. Abdullah is many times using this card to announce himself as a Pashtun. His mother didn´t married to anyone when her husband died. Abdullah Abdullah´s sister is married to Afghan writer Fahim Dashty, another guy from Panjshir. The claim his father was a poor guy can be answered with the fact that he worked in the Darbar and was a wealthy man. I don´t know why someone need to lie who call himself an angle and democracy and nationalists and freedom as shirk ... double-standard, I guess.

[Bost Bastan News]

Do you have some information who was his real father?

his father was called Ghulam Muhayyuddin Khan.

[Bost Bastan News]

Abdullah Abdullah is talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...MdLT7rRR4#t=59 from the 13s minute he is talking in Pashto.

[randolph85]

The following candidates are listed in the chronological order of their registration:

1- Bismillah Sher
First vice president, Abdul Karim Ahmadyar
Second vice president, Sultan Hamid Sultani

2- Dr. Abdullah Abdullah
First vice president, Mohammad Khan
Second vice president, Mohammad Mohaqiq

3- Fazl Karim Najmi
First vice president, Mohammad Sabir Takmeen
Second vice president, Susan Hajati

4- Abdul Rabb Rasul Sayyaf
First vice president, Mohammad Ismail Khan
Second vice president, Abdul Wahab Urfan

5- Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai
First vice president, Abdullah Bromand
Second vice president, Abed Nazar

6- Qutbuddin Hilal
First vice president, Enayatullah Enayat
Second vice president, Mohammad Ali Nabizada

7- Abdul Rahim Wardak
First vice president, Shah Abdul Ahad Afzali
Second vice president, Sayed Hussian Anwari

8- Del Agha Kohdamani
First vice president, Zalmai Hamraz
Second vice president, Toorpakai Azizi

9- Sayed Ishaq Gailani
First vice president, Zakaria Noori
Second vice president, Seema Ismati

10- Sarwar Ahmadzai
First vice president, Abdul Rahman
Second vice president, Kabir Quraishi

11- Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
First vice president, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum
Second vice president, Sarwar Danish

12- Dr. Zalmai Rasoul
First vice president, Ahmad Zia Massoud
Second vice president, Habiba Surabi

13- Sardar Muhammad Nadir Naeem
First vice president, Taj Mohammad Akbar
Second vice president, Azizullah Puya

14- Hamidullah Qaderi
First vice president, Mohammad Arif Baraki
Second vice president, Humaira Haqmal

15- Daoud Sultanzoy
First vice president, Ahmad Saeedi
Second vice president, Kazima Mohaqiq

16- Qayum Karzai
First vice president, Wahidullah Shahrani
Second vice president, Ibrahim Qasmi

17- Gul Agha Sherzai
First vice president, Sayed Hussain Alimi Balkhi
Second vice president, Mohammad Hashim Zarea

18- Azizullah Ludin
First vice president, Abdul Rahim Karimi
Second vice president, Hamidullah Rahimi

19- Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi
First vice president, Hashmatullah Mujadidi
Second vice president, Ismail Qasimyar

20- Hedayat Amin Arsala
First vice president, Gen. Khudaidad
Second vice president, Safia Seddiqi

21- Salman Ali Doostzadeh
First vice president, Mohammad Yousuf Amin
Second vice president, Aziza Rahban Wardak

22- Farooq Azam
First vice president, Abdul Ghani Asalati
Second vice president, Ahmad Shah Payeezi

23- Khadija Ghaznawi
First vice president, Mohammad Qasim Fayezai
Second vice president, Khair Mohammad Barez

24- Nadir Shah Ahmadzai
First vice president, Faiz Mohammad Daqiq
Second vice president, Qadam Ali Khadim

25- Abdul Hadi Dabeer
First vice president, Sayed Ahmadullah Padshah
Second vice president, Mawlawi Nesar Ahmad Khair Andish

26- Noor Rahman Liwal
First vice president, Ahamad Jan Nazar
Second vice president, Rafiullah

27- Dr. Dawar Nadin
First vice president, Mohammad Hassan Safi
Second vice president, Husai Andar

[Badlun]

As there are many new names ,can some one please identify who are Pashto speaking Pashtun candidates for presidency and vice presidency?

[Kushan Prince]

Anyone that rocks the lungai like a true Pashtun and is Pashtun, is getting my vote lol.

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

Anyone that rocks the lungai like a true Pashtun and is Pashtun, is getting my vote lol.

Even if his vice president is a mass murderer of Pashtuns?

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

Ashraf Ghani and his brother are competitors of each other.

[ComradePashtun]

Initial Election Polling Reveals Three Favorites
News - Afghanistan
Written by Parwiz Shamal**
Sunday, 13 October 2013 19:29


ATR-Consulting and TOLOnews surveyed the residents of Afghanistan's 34 provinces about nominees registered for the spring Presidential election. The survey, after the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) official registration process concluded, revealed that the majority of respondents who had a preference listed Dr. Abdullah Abdullah as their top choice.

More than 1,300 Afghan citizens responded to the random phone survey of the 34 provinces over the four day period of October 8 to October 12. Seventy-five percent of the participants were from urban areas and women formed 41 percent of the respondents.

All those who participated in the survey answered one simple question: "Who do you think is the best candidate, among all the candidates for the Presidency?"

Half of those interviewed claimed that there is no "best" candidate, or they did not know who it was if there was one. This half of the sample broke down as 38 percent not knowing, and 12 percent claiming there is no top candidate.

Of those who did provide a preference, 21 percent said Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is the "best" candidate. The survey results indicate that most of Abdullah's supporters are women and youth, especially those from urban areas.

Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai came in second with support from 13.6 percent of preference respondents and Qayoom Karzai came in third with 5.7 percent.

Dr. Ghani saw most of his favor coming from men from urban areas, and a regional breakdown of the results suggests his alliance with Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is ethnically Uzbek, has served him well in the north and northeastern parts of Afghanistan. Twenty percent of Dr. Ghani's supporters were from north and north eastern provinces.

These results represent a shift from the last election in 2009 in which a survey pegged Dr. Ghani at fourth place with less than one percent of his supporters coming from northern parts of Afghanistan.

Qayoom Karzai, placed third, received most of his support from village youth, and predominantly men.

Meanwhile, Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf fell the forth position with 3.4 percent of respondents naming him as the "best" candidate. Sayyaf's supporters were largely from villages and he received the lowest amount of support from women amongst the top four candidates.

Gul Agha Sherzai was in fifth position, receiving 1.1 percent of respondent's preference. His supporters were mostly men.

Zalmai Rasool was next with 0.9 percent. His supporter came largely from urban areas with a large portion being women. He is the only popular nominee who has a female Vice Presidential nominee on his ticket.

Gen Abdul Rahim Wardak landed in seventh place in the survey with 0.8 percent of respondents' support. Those who preferred him were mostly men from both cities and villages.

Of Kabul respondents alone, 24 percent selected Dr. Abdullah, 16 percent Dr. Ghani, three percent Karzai, three percent Sayyaf, one percent Rasool and one percent Wardak. But 36 percent of Kabul residents who participated in the survey did not know and 16 percent said there is no good candidate.

In the central provinces, 30 percent selected Dr. Abdullah, nine percent Dr. Ghani, five percent Sayyaf, one percent Karzai, one percent Rasool, one percent Wardak and one percent Sherzai. Thirty-nine percent said they don't know and 13 percent said there is no good candidate.

In northern Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah received 26 percent of respondents' support, Dr. Ghani 23 percent, Karzai five percent, Sayyaf two percent, Sherzai two percent and Rasool and Wardak each one percent. Eight percent said there is no good candidate and thirty-two percent said they don't know.

In western Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah received 27 percent, Dr. Ghani eight percent, Karzai two percent, Sayyaf seven percent and then Sherzai, Wardak and Rasool with one percent each. Fourteen percent of respondents in the West said there was no good candidate and 39 percent said they don't know.

In southern Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah received 21 percent of supporters, Dr. Ghani five percent, Karzai 15 percent, Sayyaf one percent, Sherzai six percent, Rasool two percent and Wardak two percent. Thirty-five percent said they don't know and 13 percent said there was no good candidate.

In eastern Afghanistan, Dr. Ghani saw 29 percent, Karzai 22 percent, Dr. Abdullah seven percent, Wardak and Sayyaf with two percent each and Sherzai one percent. Twenty-eight percent said they don't know and nine percent no good candidate.

Thirteen other Presidential candidates registered for the elections in April were selected by less than 0.5 percent and seven more did not have any favor amongst the respondents.

TOLOnews and ATR are likely to do more joint surveys of the Afghan electorate before the April 5 election day.

The preliminary list of eligible Presidential candidates is scheduled to be released by the IEC on October 19, and the final list on November 16.

Last Updated on Monday, 14 October 2013 10:35

[ComradePashtun]

The survey almost certainly is bias. Never trust Tolo/Tolo news. But what is perhaps interesting is to note Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah x 2 as the top contesters however.
Our friend Bost Bastan would be disappointed knowing his preferred candidate is lagging far behind.

[Badlun]

Can anyone share region wise population density data. If Ashraf Ghani has more percentage in a more densely populated area then he may outnumber his rival where the rival has more percentage.

For me both Abullah and Ghani are good candidates. I know Ghani personally and he is not bad. His alliance with Dostum will help him as evident from the survey to garb votes from non Pashtuns.

What about the stature of Ghanis's second VP Mr. Sarwar Danish?