Afghan presidential candidate Yunus Qanuni photo receives a tick mark on a ballot paper at a counting centre in Kabul. Afghan presidential candidate Yunus Qanuni's photo (2nd-top) receives a tick mark on a ballot paper at a counting centre in Kabul October 25, 2004. On Sunday, a spokesman for Qanuni told Reuters the former education minister, with just over 16 percent of the vote, would accept the result rather than risk causing a crisis. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood