Afghan president agrees to runoff election

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Kabul : Afghanistan | about 1 month ago

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai , downplaying fraud accusations in August's election, said he agreed to a runoff for the sake of democracy. Karzai said many world leaders called and asked him to accept a runoff and its results, but the requests were not the reason he accepted...

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