Afghans vote in historic poll
3934
Afghans are voting in a historic poll that aimed to give the mountainous and impoverished Islamic nation its first elected president and perhaps end over a quarter-century of war.
16780
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.
189724
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans crammed polling stations for their country's first-ever direct election Saturday, defying the threat of Taliban violence in the hope of bringing peace and some economic prosperity after more than two decades of war.    Voters stood in line for hours outside polling stations in bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals, while more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
604923
Vote counting started yesterday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, widely expected to install Hamid Karzai, the US-backed interim leader, as the country&#39;s first popularly chosen president.
706072
Afghans will begin casting their votes on Saturday morning at some 25,000 polling stations, in the country&#39;s first democratic ballot.
489204
Afghans packed polling stations Saturday for a historic presidential election that was blemished when all 15 candidates opposing US-backed interim President Hamid
120540
President Hamid Karzai clinched victory  in Afghanistan's historic presidential poll as his main rival  conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the  final votes on Monday.
73110
KABUL, Afghanistan - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election got under way Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.    A top election official said about three-quarters of the 10.5 milion Afghans who registered for the election turned out to vote - despite threats of violence...
5110
VOTING began in Afghanistan today for the first direct presidential election in the country&#39;s history. Some 10.5 million registered voters are eligible to select a president from a total of 18 candidates.
666273
With a threatened boycott its historic presidential election firmly relegated to the background, Afghanistan took first steps on Tuesday to begin counting votes.
684717
Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, says presidential elections on Saturday will decide the fate of the war-shattered country for centuries.
92323
Afghans braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting today in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
86945
KABUL, Afghanistan - Poll stations officially closed in Afghanistanâs historic presidential election on Saturday with no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had vowed to sabotage the process.
677009
6 October 2004 -- Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election drew to a close today amid violence, as the nation prepares to cast ballots in its first democratic vote on 9 October.
295795
This freshly minted democracy is about to hold the first open election in its history, but Saturday&#39;s vote fills Afghans here both with elation and fear.
17533
A 19-year-old Afghan woman, living as a refugee in neighboring Pakistan, was the first citizen to vote in her home country&#39;s landmark presidential election.
550769
Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count passed one million ballots Monday with incumbent