Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says partial electionresults show blatant evidence of "state-engineered" vote fraud, such aspolling districts in which every vote was cast for President HamidKarzai.
Mr. Abdullah Saturday urged the international communityto intervene, saying that if Afghanistan's next leader is chosenthrough a fraudulent vote, it could fuel instability in the country.
Afghanistan's election commission says it stands by the partial results it has released on its Web site.
Officialspostponed the release of the next round of election results, which weredue Saturday. It is not clear if they made that decision based on arequest from Mr. Abdullah.
The most recent figures, based onreturns from 60 percent of the country's polling stations show Mr.Karzai leading Mr. Abdullah with about 47 percent of the vote.
Candidates need at least 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff.