Abdullah Abdullah, the chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, will announce later whether he has decided to withdraw from a November 7 run-off election. Skip related content
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Abdullah polled second behind Karzai in the election on August 20. But the election was discredited after the United Nations threw out nearly a million ballots, one third of Karzai's total, on grounds they were fake.
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