Afghanistan will go to the polls on 18 September to choose a parliament, electoral officials have announced.
The date for the much-delayed vote, originally scheduled for last year, was disclosed by election commission head Bismillah Bismil at a news conference.
It comes three days after President Hamid Karzai said the vote would not happen in May as previously thought.
As well as electing the lower house of parliament, citizens will also be voting for provincial assemblies.
The parliamentary vote was originally scheduled for June 2004, alongside Afghanistan's first presidential election which eventually took place in October.
Details of the latest delay emerged on Thursday, when the visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a news conference in Kabul that elections would be held "this fall".
Until then, the poll had been scheduled for May.
Mr Karzai then confirmed the elections would take place in September, saying he had been informed of the decision by Mr Bismil.
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