
Fazil Ahmad Manawi, head of the Afghan Independent Election Commission, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Oct 31, 2012
KABUL: The Taliban and other insurgent leaders could stand as candidates in Afghanistan?s next presidential election, to be held in April 2014, the country?s top poll official said Wednesday.
President Hamid Karzai, who is serving his second term as leader of the war-torn nation, is constitutionally barred from running in the election and no clear candidate to succeed him has yet emerged.
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