Technically not unemployed (after all he is the official president of Afghanistan) Rabbani is a former theology professor from Kabul and the former official political leader of Afghanistan (although his term has legally expired), but one wonders what he has been leading. A highly educated man, Rabbani made an attempt to build a bridge between opposing forces when he named Hekmatyar prime minister in 1993 and again in 1996. But there is little room for compromise in this fundamentalist country. He is backed mainly by the Tajiks in the north (3.5 million people, or about 25 percent of Afghanistan's population) and maintained his power only with the military might of Massoud. His Jemiate Islami party is the only non-Pathan party in Afghanistan. Apparently Rabbani's biggest skill is the ability to put an entire room of feuding warlords to sleep once his starts in on one of his monotonal marathon speeches. He can be found in Faizabad in northern Afghanistan.
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