Hamid Karzai was declared president of Afghanistan

Monday, November 2, 2009 @ 4:32 pm by admin

Independent Election Commission declared Hamid Karzai as the elected president of Afghanistan after a runoff was cancelled. The runoff was scheduled on November 7, 2009 but was cancelled when the sole challenger former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from the presidential race. [cnn.com and bbc.co.uk]

Read the full story with video, Karzai declared elected president of Afghanistan, at the CNN site.
Read the full story, Karzai declared elected president, at the BBC site.