Afghan polls open in presidential run-off election

KABUL: Polling stations across Afghanistan opened on Saturday, officials and witnesses said, as Afghans headed to vote in the second-round election to choose a successor to Hamid Karzai.

Residents in the capital Kabul lined up from dawn to cast their ballots in the head-to-head race between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani. (AFP)