Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates have signed a power-sharing deal that establishes a unity government.<br /><br />Ashraf Ghani – a former finance minister and World Bank official – will be named president.<br /><br />Ghani and rival Abdullah Abdullah embraced after signing the agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul.<br /><br />The deal brings an end to a drawn-out row that destabilised Afghanistan at a crucial time, as foreign troops prepared to withdraw.<br /><br />Ghani and Abdullah both accused the other of electoral fraud after the presidential run-off vote in June. <br /><br />The agreement on establishing the unity government comes after all eight million ballots cast in the run-off vote were recounted in a UN-monitored audit.
