Calls for Afghan election run-off as fraud concerns grow
The Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, senior Tories, and members of the foreign affairs select committee, said the scale of the fraud would make it impossible to believe that a Hamid Karzai election victory was fair, or that the results would be seen as legitimate in Afghanistan. The Afghan Independent Election Commission, whose chief is a Karzai appointee, is due to announce the election result on 17 September.
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