By Hamid Shalizi and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan election headed for a second round run-off in mid-June between Abdullah Abdullah, a former opposition leader, and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani after final results on Thursday showed no candidate had won an absolute majority. The winner will take charge at a crucial time with most foreign troops due to withdraw by the end of the year, the Taliban insurgency still raging and an agreement with Washington permitting some U.S. forces to stay hanging in the balance. Abdullah, a former leader in the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, scored 45 percent of the vote in the first round held on April 5, followed by Ghani with 31.6 percent, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said. \"As the none of the candidates got more than 50 percent of the vote, the election goes to the second round,\" IEC chief Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani told a news conference.
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