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Afghan politician Abdullah Abdullah has rejected the results of June’s presidential run-off, calling the vote that put his arch-rival Ashraf Ghani ahead “rigged”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speaking on Tuesday to a crowded gathering, known as a Loya Jirga, in Kabul, Abdullah told his followers that the results of the vote were fabricated and that he had won both rounds of voting.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I am refusing to accept the result, I condemn it and I will not accept it,” Abdullah said.<\/span>
“Nobody who has committed fraud should dream they will make their way to the presidential palace,” he added.<\/span>
Abdullah told his thousands of supporters he was the winner of the run-off, putting himself on a collision course with Ghani.<\/span>
“We are the winner of this round of elections without any doubt,” he told a roaring crowd in central Kabul.<\/span>
The veteran politician, who was Afghanistan’s former foreign minister, said the Afghan people were waiting for him to announce a government and “defend their votes”, but stopped short of declaring his own government.<\/span>
Abdullah’s refusal to accept the result threatens to spark a political crisis in a country already destabilised by a conflict with Taliban fighters.<\/span>
Earlier on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that any attempt to take power illegally would cost Afghanistan US support.<\/span>
“I have noted reports of protests in Afghanistan and of suggestions of a ‘parallel government’ with the gravest concern,” he said in a statement issued by the US embassy in Kabul.<\/span>
“Any action to take power by extra-legal means will cost Afghanistan the financial and security support of the United States and the international community.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Deadly blast<\/strong><\/span>
Security has been deteriorating in Afghanistan as most ISAF forces prepare to leave the country after 12 years of war against the Taliban.<\/span>
Abdullah’s comments came shortly after at least four NATO soldiers, two policemen and 10 civilians were killed in a suicide blast in eastern Afghanistan. <\/span>
Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said the timing of the attack was particularly sensitive.<\/span>
“These kinds of attacks are very, very worrying especially at this very politically delicate time with the presidential election results very much in doubt,” our correspondent said. <\/span>
Security sources told Al Jazeera that women and children were among the dead and at least 14 people were also injured in the attack on a medical clinic in the province of Parwan near the Bagram airbase.<\/span>
The Taliban claimed responsibility in a text message to the Reuters news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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