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KABUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission said on Monday there would be no presidential run-off after President Hamid Karzai's only rival, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew.

"There is no second round," the IEC's chief electoral officer Daoud Ali Najafi told Reuters. The run-off, called after the first round in August was marred by widespread fraud, was to have been held on Nov. 7. (Reporting by Golnar Motevalli; Editing by Paul Tait) (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)

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