Decision Followed Five Days of Difficult Talks With U.S. - WSJ

Sources familiar with the talks between the two men said Mr. Karzai repeatedly raised complaints that 1.3 million votes disqualified by a U.N.-sponsored commission were mostly Pashtun, disenfranchising his ethnic group, Afghanistan's largest. - Wall Street Journal
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