Afghanistan, Dec. 22 -- The Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan announced the preliminary presidential election results after a prolonged delay.
Hawa Alam Nuristani, the head of Independent Election Commission announced the preliminary election results of the Afghan presidential elections held on September 28.
According to the results announced, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has secured 923,868 out of 1,824,401 votes casted which makes almost 50.64%.
Ghani's main rival Abdullah Abdullah has got 720,099 votes which makes 39.52% of the total votes casted.
Gulbduddin Hekmatyar with 70,243 (3.85%), Rahmatullah Nabil with 33921 (1.86%) and Faramarz Tammana with 18,066 (0.99%) votes respectively stand on 3rd, 4th and 5th places....