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          Yunus Qanuni is seen by many as the main challenger to President Hamid Karzai in the October elections.

          Mr Qanuni is a veteran of Afghan power struggles

          A former education minister in Mr Karzai's interim administration, he is an ethnic Tajik who has the backing of the powerful Defence Minister, Mohammed Fahim.

          Together with General Fahim and Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, Mr Qanuni is the political and military heir of Ahmad Shah Masood, the Tajik commander assassinated by suicide bombers in September 2001.

          Mr Qanuni was born in 1957 in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, but went to the capital to study.

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          He soon became involved in politics, opposing the rule of President Daoud, who had overthrown King Zahir Shah in 1973.

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          Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, he returned to the Panjshir Valley and joined up with Ahmad Masood's forces.

          He is said to have travelled to Pakistan to buy arms and secure funds for Mr Masood, kn