WASHINGTON (PAN): Senior Afghan politician Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to Hamid Karzai in tomorrow's presidential polls, has accused the incumbent president of using the government machinery.
"He (Karzai) has used state apparatus, state resources. If you just take the airtime on the state- run television, it was 90 percent for him, one percent coverage for me and the rest was for others. Let's just take that one example," Abdullah Abdullah alleged.
The election campaign that ended Monday night was unfair, the former foreign minister alleged in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday.
"The process has been unfair right from the beginning, and we knew it. We didn't expect President Karzai to perform better in that sense because he has stepped on the Constitution. So how can one expect him to abide by the electoral law?"
Responding to a question, Abdullah feared there would be fraud on Election Day. There were ample indications of such things, he said, adding because the voter registration process in itself had been fraudulent, he added.
"As a result of that, there are a lot of duplicated cards and so on and so forth, and the number of people who have registered in some parts of the country is equal to the (whole) population, you can imagine," he claimed.
"And based on that, there are possibilities of fraud. But how big it is, it will be known to the public. It will be known to the international community," the ex-minister maintained.
Abdullah said unlike Karzai his would b a genuine partnership with the
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