Career
According to a profile by Pajhwok Afghan News after spending 200,000 Afghans on his campaign he resigned from the Presidential race on August 13, 2009, a week before the election. He said he resigned because during the campaign he had come to realize that Hamid Karzai was the best candidate, and he urged voters to return him for a second term. They reported that he was a high school graduate, who had participated in a 1976 Loya Jirga.
His vice presidential running mates were Misri Khan Momand and Abdul Raqib.
