Disputed Afghan Election Result to Be Announced Sunday
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Local Editor
The result of Afghanistan’s disputed election will be declared on Sunday, officials said 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 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.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team