Karzai Clear Winner In Controversial Afghan Presidential Vote
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A top election official says vote counting is through in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election. The election&#39;s top technical officer told The Associated Press that US-backed interim president Hamid Karzai is the winner.
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KABUL, Oct 11: A breakthrough agreement in Afghanistan&#39;s disputed elections was reached on Monday when the main rival to President Hamid Karzai said he would accept the result after an independent inquiry into charges of fraud.
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Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election Wednesday, after a three-week probe into vote fraud found no grounds to invalidate his triumph.
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Investigators have clear evidence of ballot box stuffing in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election but not on a scale that would overturn interim leader Hamid Karzai's victory, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win Afghanistan's landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said Tuesday, after early returns gave him a commanding advantage.
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Hamid Karzai has been declared as Afghanistan&#39;s president after an electoral commission concluded that vote rigging had not affected the result.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai has taken an unofficial simple majority in the Afghan presidential election -- enough to avoid a runoff, the BBC reported Sunday.
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There has been a breakthrough agreement in Afghanistan&#39;s disputed elections, with the main rival to President Hamid Karzai saying he will accept the result, after an independent inquiry into charges of fraud.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of victory in his country&#39;s historic presidential poll, but the result will not be announced for a day or so until the last few hundred
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KABUL - President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Early results show interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai leading in that country&#39;s first free presidential election.
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With more than half the ballots in Afghanistan's presidential election counted and outright triumph virtually assured for incumbent Hamid Karzai, attention turned to when the winner can be declared and how the losers will react.
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The main rivals of Afghan President Hamid Karzai swallowed their bitterness on Thursday over cases of vote fraud and accepted defeat a day after a UN-Afghan election panel declared Karzai the winner of a historic Oct. 9 election.
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Afghanistan&#39;s transitional leader Hamid Karzai has won the war-shattered country&#39;s first-ever presidential election. the announcement came after a special panel endorsed the election results as free and fair.
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KABUL Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board Wednesday after an international panel announced that irregularities it had investigated
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai has an overall majority in the country&#39;s presidential election, winning 4.2 million of the estimated 8 million votes, according to incomplete results on the election Web site.
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President Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board this afternoon after an international