Race Rival Blames Karzai for Misusing Authority

Provincial officials run rallies to support President Karzai's nomination for elections, a tough competitor, Ahmadzai said
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai a runner for Afghan presidential polls in August revealed he has some evidence that government officials in Laghman and Maidan-Wardak provinces are campaigning for President Hamid Karzai.
Mr Ahmadzai in a press conference at his residential place in Kabul on Monday also said he has formed a long-term strategy for Afghanistan which he proposes to back his nomination.
He declared the curriculum for Afghanistan is translated in Dari, Pashto and Uzbaki, the three main Afghan languages.

"I will sign up for the elections and will introduce my two deputies as vice-president in the next few days," Ahmadzai told in the conference.
"I will give up my second citizenship," said Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai who is holding a U.S passport.
Ahmadzai has been one of the harsh critiques of the Afghan government over the past years since he quit as the minister of finance in 2004.
He was appointed as the dean of Kabul University after the ministerial post as likely he failed to reject his foreign nationality, but this time, for the top position in his birthplace, he is eager to end to his American citizenship.
New Candidate
Meanwhile, Mirwais Yasini, deputy speaker of the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament said he would also run in the crowded election race.
"Fight against corruption, drugs and stablising security" are his priority if he is elected as the president among the 60 runners.

By: Feroz Nikzad