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Afghans vote in run-off election

India Blooms News Service | | 14 Jun 2014, 09:54 pm
Kabul, June 14 (IBNS): Defying Taliban threats, hundreds of Afghans exercised their franchise in a run-off vote to choose a new president of Afghanistan on Saturday.

Polls, which have officially closed in Afghanistan, will decide whether former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani  will lead the country int he upcoming days.

NATO Secretary General has congratulated the people of Afghanistan on the elections.

"Today is another historical day for Afghanistan. I congratulate the millions of Afghans from across the country who cast their votes in the final round of presidential elections,"  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement.

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