Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks during a news conference in Kabul, July 6, 2014. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah warned his rival on Sunday he would refuse to accept the outcome of the country's troubled election unless he saw firm evidence that the vote was completely free of fraud.
His warning, on the eve of preliminary election results due out on Monday, sets the stage for a possibly violent confrontation with his rival Ashraf Ghani, a standoff which has threatened to divide the fragile country along ethnic lines.
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