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Abdullah Abdullah - 2009 runner-up back in fray
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Ashraf Ghani - technocrat with warlord running mate
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Mohammad Daud Sultanzoy - talks show host picks political fight
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Zalmai Rassoul - the cosmopolitan candidate
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Sardar Muhammad Nadir Naeem - king's grandson withdraws
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Gul Agha Sherzai - candidate with controversial past
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Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf - man who brought bin Laden to Afghanistan
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Qutbuddin Hilal - Hekmatyar's man on ballot paper
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Hedayat Amin Arsala - the technocrat outsider
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Crimea's ethnic minorities fear for future
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Syrian forces take full control of the rebel bastion Yabroud