Washington, October 20: As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of Hamid Karzai’s votes from the August Presidential polls, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Afghan President will “set the stage” for resolving the political crisis by announcing his intentions today.
Clinton also hoped that the crisis in the war-torn country would be resolved soon.
“He is going to announce his intentions. I am going to let him do that, but I am encouraged at the direction the situation is moving,” Clinton told reporters at the State Department after meeting with Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki.
She was responding to questions about the political crisis in Afghanistan in the wake of a UN-backed panel deciding to cut Karzai’s share of the vote to 48 per cent, below the threshold for an outright win.
–PTI