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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: US envoy in 'testy' election meeting with Karzai AFP - Saturday, August 29 KABUL (AFP) - - A testy meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US envoy Richard Holbrooke over last week's election highlights the fractious ties between Kabul and Washington, analysts and diplomats say. ADVERTISEMENT The United States and other Western allies welcomed Afghanistan's polls on August 20 as a success, but there have been allegations of widespread fraud and early results point to a disastrously low turnout. With just over 17 percent of the results released, Karzai leads ex-foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah by 42.3 percent to 33.1 percent, but falls short of the majority needed to avoid a run-off after results are finalised next month. Holbrooke, a diplomat once dubbed the "Bulldozer" for his negotiating style in the Balkans, pressed the Afghan leader over allegations of widespread vote-rigging, an official with knowledge of the meeting told AFP. "It was a difficult meeting and there were some sharp exchanges in it," the official said in Washington on condition of anonymity. Holbrooke, who was appointed regional pointman by US President Barack Obama, met all the candidates running in Afghanistan's presidential election and shared a meal with Karzai on August 21, the day after the vote. "The thrust of the meeting was to respect the electoral process, let it take its course and be patient and to respect the results, whatever they are," the US official said. Holbrooke reiterated to each candidate the public US line that Washington was neutral in the race and steered clear of recommending any new vote while waiting for complete results, the official said. "There was no shouting and no one stormed out," said Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the US embassy in Kabul. But Afghan analysts said the meeting would be dangerously interpreted as US meddling and could widen the gap in a fractious relationship with Washington, on whom Kabul depends for aid and troops to fight a Taliban insurgency. "If concerns over allegations of fraud and potential fraud were expressed threateningly then it will be seen as direct interference and that will have dire consequences," said political science lecturer Nasrullah Stanikzai. "It is very dangerous. When the public reads about envoys dictating to an Afghan leader... anyone elected will be seen as a stooge," he added. Karzai's seven-year rule since a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001 has been marred by war, corruption and cooling ties with the West. Members of the Obama team have been alarmed at what they see as a lack of action against corruption and were taken aback by Karzai's alliances with warlords accused of human rights abuses during decades of war in Afghanistan. "Karzai's team is not the team of their choice. Bitter talks between Holbrooke and Karzai are not new or sudden," said political analyst Sayed Massoud. Obama has made eradicating Islamist extremism in south Asia a key priority in his young presidency and ordered another 21,000 troops to Afghanistan. On the surface, the Karzai and Obama administration are co-dependent on pursuing the same strategies of crushing an increasingly virulent Taliban insurgency and bringing peace to a country ripped apart by decades of war. "But the problem is that the Obama administration sees the Karzai team as incapable of implementing these strategies. Even before elections, the drift over such issues was visible," said Massoud. The United States has been particularly concerned over Karzai's running mate, former anti-Taliban commander Mohammed Qasim Fahim accused by rights groups of running militias that protect drug traffickers and criminals. Karzai has called Fahim a war hero and a unifying force. Fahim is a Tajik, the second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan after Karzai's Pashtuns. Obama last month ordered an investigation into allegations another Karzai ally, Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, killed up to 2,000 prisoners in 2001. Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who led the Obama team's review of policy to the region, said a fresh Karzai term as president could be problematic. "The point here is, if Karzai is returned to office now because of Dostum as his supporter, then hopes for anti-corruption and good governance and the rest are going to be rather bleak," he said. 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