The IEC is a constitutional body consisting of seven Afghan commissioners and charged with "conducting free and fair elections and referendums in an efficient and impartial way, " according to its Web site.

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So obviously Abdullah Abdullah feels that there is a lack of credibility in the IEC.

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But they did discuss different preparations that are being made with the IEC to ensure that the election is run in a way that people can be confident about its outcome.

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Mr Karzai is staying his hand only because the IEC balked at accepting the astonishing results from Ghazni, a Pushtun-majority constituency where preliminary counts gave all 11 seats to the Hazara ethnic minority.

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