Secretary of State John F. Kerry made an unscheduled stopover in Kabul early Friday in an attempt to resolve the dispute between two politicians claiming to have won Afghanistan's protracted presidential election, the State Department announced.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah claims massive voting fraud was behind a dramatic turnaround in election returns showing he was defeated by Ashraf Ghani. (Massoud Hossaini / Associated Press)
Angry claims by former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah that massive election fraud gave the election to former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani have further undermined stability in the country that U.S. forces have occupied for a dozen years and that Washington has propped up with hundreds of billions of dollars in investments.
In an announcement via Twitter, the State Department said Kerry had arrived in the Afghan capital to meet with outgoing President Hamid Karzai as well as with Abdullah and Ghani.
Kerry spent the last two days in China and was on his way to a meeting in Vienna with fellow foreign ministers of the six-nation forum trying to beat a July 20 deadline for a comprehensive nuclear accord with Iran.
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