Islam Times - Afghan pres. candidate refuses partial results

Islam Times - Afghanistan’s presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has said he will not accept the partial results, scheduled to be announced on Monday.

In a press conference in the capital Kabul on Sunday, Abdullah said he will not accept any results unless "clean votes are separated from unclean votes."

"What we are asking for is an audit and after the completion of the audit, the announcement of the preliminary results should be made," he stated.

"There is no doubt that fraud has happened, massive fraud has happened," he noted. "After all suspicious areas are audited, we will accept the election results, but not before that."

Partial results of the June 14 run-off election were due on Wednesday but the country's Independent Election Commission (IEC) delayed the announcement due to a dispute over the alleged fraud.

Abdullah's rival Ashraf Ghani, however, insists that there should be no more delays.

Ghani has said that the presidential election was clean, and claimed victory by more than one million votes.

The winner of the election will succeed outgoing President Hamid Karzai, who has been in power since the US-led invasion of the Asian country in 2001.