| Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| Abdullah supporters hold protest rally in Kabul |
| 2014-06-20 |
| [Iran Press TV] Supporters of Afghanistan's presidential 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... , have staged a protest rally in the capital over alleged election fraud. On Thursday, Abdullah's supporters erupted into the streets of Kabul and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against outgoing President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... and the Independent Election Commission to mark the first public rally against the presidential election. The demonstration came after Abdullah on Wednesday accused the government of engineering a widespread fraud. He said that according to evidence obtained by his campaign team, some ballot boxes were filled with votes a day before the June 14 run-off. He also demanded that vote-counting be stopped. "We suspend engagement with the (election) commission and we have asked our monitors to leave their offices," Abdullah said, adding, "We are asking for the counting process to be stopped immediately." He accused his rival, Ashraf Ghani, President Karzai, and the election commission of attempting to change the results. |
| Posted by:Fred |