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Find out what the world’s leading thinkers, politicians and cultural figures really think, as they talk about their lives for thirty minutes on The Interview.

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 13/02/2010 Abdullah Abdullah: Abdullah Abdullah, Politician

Abdullah Abdullah, Politician

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Abdullah Abdullah on the Taliban, escaping suicide bombers and his hopes for the future.

Abdullah Abdullah was the main rival to Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's presidential elections last year. Now he is trying to carve out a role as an opposition politician.

Abdullah Abdullah emerged as the main rival to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's presidential elections last year. 

But he withdrew from a leadership run-off saying that he couldn't trust that the electoral system would be free of fraud. 

Now he is sidelined in a system which has no formal role for an opposition. His hopes rest on parliamentary elections later this year. 

Owen Bennett Jones asks him about talking to the Taliban, escaping suicide bombers and his hopes for the future.

This interview was recorded at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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