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Afghan leader accused of meddling in fraud probe

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KABUL: A campaign official for the runner-up in Afghanistan‘s disputed election has accused President Hamid Karzai of engineering the resignation of a fraud investigator to throw doubt on the process.

Representatives for Karzai could not immediately be reached for comment.

The deputy campaign manager for Abdullah Abdullah said Tuesday that the resigned official is biased toward Karzai. Saleh Mohammad Registani says the resignation was a move by the Karzai campaign to call into question the validity of the fraud investigations in case the rulings force a runoff with Abdullah.

One of the two Afghans on the five-member panel said Monday that he was resigning because the foreigners on the panel were making all the decisions.

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