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Veteran Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum has reportedly called on groups that oppose the fundamentalist Taliban to unite to create a parallel government-in-exile for Afghanistan that will move to dislodge the extremist group from power. Dostum, who with other anti-Taliban figures has formed the Turkey-based High Council of Resistance to Save Afghanistan, made his appeal on September 15, according to Radio Azadi. It came two days after bne IntelliNews reported Russian political scientist Andrey Serenko has predicted an upcoming civil war in Afghanistan and has concluded that there is “no doub…

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