It's been obvious for some time that the voting was riddled with problems. Karzai has finally come around to accepting that he did not really cross the 50% mark required for a victory. On to round two.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, will bow to international pressure today and concede that he did not win a clear majority in Afghanistan's bitterly contested election, and also accept there should be a second round of voting.
Senior officials in Kabul said Karzai would resolve the political crisis that has developed over the widespread fraud in the August presidential election, after a frantic round of diplomatic manoeuvring led by John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee.
