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| Afghanistan |
| Abdullah demands halt to Afghan vote count over 'fraud' |
| 2014-06-19 |
| [The News (Pak)] Afghan presidential election candidate 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... on Wednesday demanded a halt to vote-counting over fraud allegations, raising the prospect of a political crisis as the country undergoes its first democratic transition of power. "We suspend engagement with the (election) commission and we have asked our monitors to leave their offices," he said. "We are asking for the counting process to be stopped immediately. |
| Posted by:Fred |