Karzai agrees to face second round of voting
President Hamid Karzai agreed to face a second round of voting in Afghanistan's disputed election yesterday after a UN-led fraud inquiry excluded enough of his votes to trigger a run-off.
After several hours of deliberation on how to respond to Abdullah's pull-out the IEC announced today that as Karzai had received most votes in the first round and no longer had a competitor in the second, he is now Afghanistan's elected president.