Afghans begin voting
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Afghans have braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election campaign got underway yesterday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- In schools and mosques, wearing suits and burkas, Afghans voted yesterday in the first presidential election, and did not suffer the widespread violence that officials had feared. But the ballot was thrown into doubt when candidates challenging interim President Hamid Karzai called the results invalid after many stations used the wrong ink to mark voters' thumbs.
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Mixing of the votes cast for the first-Afghan presidential elections began in parts of the country this morning, a spokesman of the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said Thursday evening.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is leading his rivals in the country&#39;s first presidential vote after two decades of civil war, drawing support from the southern and eastern border with
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Millions of Afghans are set to go to the polls Saturday in the country&#39;s first direct democratic election, almost three years after the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign.
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Candidates for president in Afghanistan&#39;s first free elections to be held Oct. 9 officially kicked off their campaigns yesterday.
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;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.
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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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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...
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Afghans arrange votes in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2004. The Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body decided on Monday to suspend vote counting and start to investigate into the voting process.
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In a historic step, some 10 million Afghans are set to cast their first-ever ballots for president Saturday.
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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.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- An estimated 10 million Afghans lined up outside schools, mosques and hospitals to take part in the first direct presidential election in the nation&#39;s 200-year history.
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ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan exercised their right to vote in Afghanistanâs first presidential elections on Saturday under tight security.
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Afghanistan&#39;s electoral commission gave the go-ahead for counting to begin today in the disputed presidential election after charges of fraudulent multiple voting forced a delay.
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After delays over fraud charges and boycott threats, the vote count in Afghanistan's presidential election finally began, five days after millions of men and women defied the Taliban to have their first say in their country's destiny.