BBC: Afghan presidential election delayed by three months
Next year's presidential election in Afghanistan has been postponed by three months, election authority sources say.
It was initially due in April. A new date in mid-July or early August is to be announced on Thursday.
Many potential candidates had been unable to meet registration requirements and extreme weather meant their teams could not organise for a spring date, the sources told the BBC.
It comes days after reports that the US was to withdraw thousands of troops.
About 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military presence in the country - could go home within months, the US media reports said.
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Update #1: Afghanistan postpones presidential election -- AP
Update #2: Afghanistan postpones presidential election -- Al Jazeera
WNU Editor: The government is baliming the weather and registration problems for the delay. But considering how the war is now impacting the entire country, I fail to see how anyone can conduct an election in such an environment.
