Warlord politics heats Afghan vote
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As the hometown of the current Afghan president, Kandahar should be wrapped up for Hamid Karzai. But look around, and
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For the first time since independence in 1919, voters in Afghanistan will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president. Enthusiasm is high: more than 11 million registered
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Vote counting started Thursday in Afghanistan's landmark election, widely expected to install U.S.-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai as the war-ravaged country's first popularly chosen president.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 7, 2004 - Afghanistan&#39;s historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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His election to a five-year presidential term all but official, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was already under pressure Wednesday to put the squeeze on the country&#39;s powerful warlords and tackle a narcotics industry threatening to overwhelm one
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Sporadic violence erupted in pockets of  Afghanistan on the eve of a historic presidential election in  the rugged war-torn land, highlighting the risks posed by  Taliban militants who have vowed to disrupt the vote.
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Many Afghans say they are more worried about a different source of abuse and intimidation during the presidential elections: pressure from local militia commanders to vote for certain candidates.
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Afghan warlord General Dostum says he will, after all, accept the validity of Saturday's presidential election.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's historic presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy, and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence.    After 25 years of near-constant war, voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time as more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Elections heralded as the dawn of democracy in war-ravaged Afghanistan will be hijacked by warlords able to intimidate voters and candidates to entrench their own power, a leading rights group warned today.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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WASHINGTON, October 08 (Online): As Afghans prepare for their first presidential elections on October 9, President Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, is being challenged by over a dozen factional leaders, but most Afghans and international officials expect him to
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To become Afghanistan's first elected President, he has to placate warlords, pacify the Taliban -- and survive
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Afghans have one day left to make up their minds about who to vote for as their country's first elected president even though threats of violent reprisals by Taliban militants may deter some from casting their ballots.
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The battlelines have been drawn for  Afghanistan's historic presidential vote in two days' time and  it's not about President Hamid Karzai and whether he wins.
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A veteran Afghan warlord wanted by the U.S. distanced himself from the Taliban and gave his strongest indication yet that he was open to talks with embattled President Hamid Karzai.
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World News, KABUL - Voting began in Afghanistan Saturday for the first direct presidential election in the countryâs history. Some 10.