Son of a Pashtun father and a Tajik mother, he became, after practicing ophthalmology in Kabul until 1985, then with Afghan refugees at the hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, special advisor to Commander Ahmad Shah Masud in 1986 and fought alongside him in the ranks of the Northern Alliance against the Soviets and the Taliban. From 1992 to 1996, he was spokesman for the Minister of Defense of the Islamic State of Afghanistan (name given to the country by the ruling Northern Alliance). Appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1997, he was interim Minister of Foreign Affairs of the government in exile from 1999 to 2001.
Silk on silk carpet in shimmering tones and silk velvet and silver thread. Many inscriptions appear on it; Except in God, God, God; In the absence of a certain Abdullah Abdullah; We presented to Mr. Abdullah Abdullah, Our blood Ahmed Abdullah Abdullah