More Afghan poll results due with Abdullah in small lead

Afghanistan was set on Sunday to release further results from its presidential election after early counting put former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah ahead of his main rival Ashraf Ghani. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said that the second batch of results would be declared at about 1230 GMT in the race to succeed President Hamid Karzai as US troops withdraw from the country. Last week, the first 10 percent of the vote was announced with Abdullah collecting 41.9 percent and Ashra