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Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of Afghan presidential debate

By Blake Hounshell Share

Over on the AfPak Channel's Twitter feed, Katherine Tiedemann is live-tweeting a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty conference call on the Afghan elections and the upcoming presidential debate.

The news so far: incumbent Hamid Karzai has confirmed his participation, but challenger Abdullah Abdullah is refusing to participate, saying he wasn't adequately consulted. Technocrat Ashraf Ghani and populist longshot Ramazan Bashardost have agree to debate Karzai, however.

More background on the contenders here from AfPak Channel contributor Jean MacKenzie.