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Abdullah votes in Afghan poll

2014-06-14 60 Dailymotion

PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3<br/> <br />ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Afghan presidential hopeful Abdullah Abdullah votes in the final round in Afghanistan's election that began at 7 a.m. (0230 GMT) on Saturday (June 14).<br/> <br />Up to 12 million voters are eligible to vote in the poll to pick a successor to President Hamid Karzai who has been in power since the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.<br/> <br />The vote pits former anti-Taliban fighter Abdullah against ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani after neither secured the 50 percent majority needed to win outright in the first round on April 5.<br/> <br />The winner will inherit an unfinished war and an economy in the doldrums.<br/> <br />The Taliban are still strong and Afghanistan's foreign-trained army has never put to rest questions about its effectiveness, especially in the absence of foreign troops, the bulk of whom will leave by the end of the year.<br/> <br />The first round of polling won praise a

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