President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday was declared the winner of Afghanistan’s presidential vote after months of delayed results and bitter dispute. Supporters of Ghani’s leading challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, accuse Afghanistan’s election commission of favouring Ghani and have threatened to form a parallel government if the commission announced results that did not satisfy their grievances. FILE - Abdullah Abdullah, center, an Afghan opposition politician, meets with other presidential candidates and politicians in Kabul, Afghanistan on Dec. 4, 2019. Hawa Alam Nuristani, head of the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) prays before the final presidential election results announcement in Kabul, Afghanistan February 18, 2020. The election commission has attributed the irregularities to human error in setting the time and date of devices that recorded the votes.

Source: bd News24 February 18, 2020 14:27 UTC