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Wolesi Jirga again fails to resolve speaker row

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KABUL or lower house on Thursday again failed to resolve the dispute over the speaker election for a fifth day.

On May 16, lawmakers Mir Rahman Rahmani, Mirwais Yasini, Kamal Naser Osuli and Omar Nasir contested for the speaker post.

However, none could bag enough votes to become speaker of the house and the ballot went to a second round, which was deferred to Sunday.

Mir Rahman and Osuli, who received the highest numbers of votes on Thursday, were in the run for the . . .

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