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2014-04-16 Afghanistan
Afghan election and beyond
[DAWN] IT will indeed be a rare feat for an Afghan ruler to leave office alive and hand over the charge to his elected successor. The historical presidential election in Afghanistan is over but the outcome is still far away with no clear winner in sight.

It is certainly heading towards a run-off. No candidate is likely to win 50pc of the votes cast last week. Partial results indicate that it would most probably be a run-off between the two candidates -- Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
, a suave former foreign minister and Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank senior executive -- leading the race.

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

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