Afghan President Hamid Karzai has blamed foreigners, including UN and EU officials, for 'very widespread' fraud during presidential and provincial elections last year.
'The truth is this brothers ... There was fraud in presidential and provincial council elections, no doubt that there a very widespread fraud, very widespread,' Mr Karzai told a meeting with Afghan electoral workers in Kabul.
'But Afghans did not do this fraud. The foreigners did this fraud,' he said.
He singled out former UN deputy head of mission, Peter Galbraith, who was sacked after a row with his boss on how to handle vote irregularities, and the head of the EU election observation mission to Afghanistan, Philippe Morillon.
'The United Nations, the United Nations office of the deputy had become the focal point for fraud,' Mr Karzai said.
