Afghanistan Presidential Rivals Sign Power-Sharing Deal --- KABUL-Afghanistan's two rival presidential candidates Sunday agreed to share power in a unity government, ending a three-month crisis over the disputed election's results and opening the way for President Hamid Karzai to stand down after 13 years at the helm. -- The fragile deal, brokered by Mr. Karzai, the U.S. and the United Nations, was followed by a declaration from the election commission's chairman that named former finance minister Ashraf Ghani as the country's next president, and that wished his rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, success in the new position of Afghanistan's chief executive. -- Sunday's deal aims make sure that discord over the June 14 election—which was meant to mark the country's first democratic transition but was discredited by widespread fraud—doesn't push Afghanistan into civil war just as U.S. forces withdraw. --- .The White House Sunday welcomed the agreement, saying that it "helps bring closure to Afghanistan's political crisis, and restores confidence in the way forward." --- "I haven't voted for Ashraf Ghani to share power but to rule the country," said Muqim Khan, a 32-year-old roadside vendor in Kabul. "This is not an election. They should have asked people not to vote at the beginning, and should have split the government among themselves." -- "I have voted with all my family for Ashraf Ghani, but now it has been proven to us that our votes do not mean anything," agreed another supporter of Mr. Ghani, 40-year-old shopkeeper Mohammad Gul. "I have lost faith in elections." - Read More, WSJ, http://online.wsj.com/articles/afghanistan-presidential-rivals-sign-power-sharing-deal-1411287148?tesla=y&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB11393057870935543402104580167400328539306.html