Afghan President Hamid Karzai (C) speaks during celebrations to commemorate Afghanistan's 95th anniversary of independence as he is flanked by presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah (R) and Ashraf Ghani in Kabul August 19, 2014. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's next president was meant to be inaugurated on Monday but the deadline has been pushed back to September 2 as rival candidates remain deadlocked over who won an election meant to mark the troubled country's first democratic transfer of power.
Rivals Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal, must form a government of national unity and cooperate on an audit of all eight million votes that were cast to eliminate concerns over widespread electoral fraud.
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