Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is the former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan and the leading candidate in the 2014 Presidential elections of that country. What personal quirk associated with him seems to have happened due to reasons ranging from the insistence of Western newspapers, a misinterpretation at a news conference, or because of his own choice as he is sufficiently westernized to see the need for it?
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He only had a first name ("Abdullah" - apparently many Afghans use only one name), but due to the Western convention of a last name as well,it was duplicated.
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