Afghan Poll Is Mostly Calm, but Challengers Cry Foul
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Afghans turned out to vote in large numbers Saturday in their first presidential election, an event that was unexpectedly peaceful but soon marred by 15 candidates
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PESHAWAR, Oct 18: Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to maintain his lead over his rival candidates in the presidential elections.
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Hamid Karzai remained on course on Friday to win Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but with a quarter of the vote still to be counted, rivals were whittling
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As counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election neared its end, a dip in incumbent Hamid Karzai&#39;s lead has put more onus on an independent panel to decide if voting irregularities could have upset the result.
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Afghans turned out to vote in large numbers today as Hamid Karzai and his rivals disputed the integrity of the vote.
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As the war-weary Afghans are getting closer to the first-ever presidential polls, the spiraling violence is going to hamper the ongoing stabilization process in the post-war nation, observers here believe.
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As counting in Afghanistan's presidential  election neared its end, a dip in incumbent Hamid Karzai's lead  on Saturday increased the burden on an independent panel to  decide if voting irregularities could have upset the result.
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Election officials fanned out across Afghanistan to inspect several dozen suspicious ballot boxes that are delaying the end of the presidential vote count and the declaration of Hamid Karzai as the violence-weary nation's first popularly chosen leader.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election closed on Saturday without any of the feared  large-scale violence but the vote was thrown into turmoil  instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Interim leader Hamid Karzai has clinched a majority of the votes in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election under near-complete results Monday, leaving him all but certain of becoming this war-wrecked nation&#39;s first democratically
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Election officials in Afghanistan  collected ballots on Sunday from a historic presidential vote  which started enthusiastically but ended in turmoil after most  of the candidates announced a boycott.
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With 99 percent of the votes still to be  counted in Afghanistan's presidential election, incumbent Hamid  Karzai had taken a lead that many observers expect him to  retain right to the end of a marathon count.
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Hamid Karzai was closing in Sunday on a majority of the votes in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election, leaving only an investigation of alleged irregularities between the U.S.-backed incumbent and a five-year mandate.
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s historic elections is almost finished, with incumbent President Hamid Karzai on course to win a simple majority.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's landmark presidential election has been marred by intimidation and official partiality, the United Nations said on Sunday, but it expects this week's vote to be relatively free and fair.
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Election officials are preparing to investigate complaints of fraud and irregularities in Afghanistan's polls, which passed off peacefully with millions of men and women turning out despite the threat of violence.