Afghan poll result to be out today
22 Sept 2014 3:03 AM IST
The result of Afghanistan’s disputed election will be declared on Sunday, officials said on Saturday, as last-minute talks between the two rival candidates continued on a proposed power-sharing deal.
The stalemate between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah since the June 14 vote has plunged Afghanistan into a political crisis as US-led NATO troops end their 13-year war against the Taliban.
Both men claim to have won the fraud-tainted election, and the United Nations and the United States have pushed hard for a ‘national unity government’ to try to avoid a return to the ethnic divisions of the 1990s civil war.
‘The IEC will officially announce the final result of the presidential election on Sunday,’ Independent Election Commission spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor told AFP.
The stalemate between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah since the June 14 vote has plunged Afghanistan into a political crisis as US-led NATO troops end their 13-year war against the Taliban.
Both men claim to have won the fraud-tainted election, and the United Nations and the United States have pushed hard for a ‘national unity government’ to try to avoid a return to the ethnic divisions of the 1990s civil war.
‘The IEC will officially announce the final result of the presidential election on Sunday,’ Independent Election Commission spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor told AFP.
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