Karzai says he may call early election
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday he may call an early presidential election to leave enough time for the new government to handle a planned security transition from US forces to Afghans.
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.