Initial report: Afghan election a success
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election began on Thursday, five days after polls closed, reports The Associated Press.
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25 October 2004 -- With nearly all the votes counted, Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai appears on his way to an outright victory in the initial round of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election.
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KABUL : With more than half the ballots in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election counted and outright victory virtually assured for incumbent Hamid Karzai, attention has turned to when the winner can be declared and how opposition candidates will react.
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the Afghan election, securing over 55 % and paving for the way for him to become the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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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
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Afghanistan's protracted election vote count finally drew to a close with President Hamid Karzai the landslide victor, but an official declaration of his win still awaited the verdict of a fraud probe.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Incumbent Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the body organizing the vote has said.
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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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Counting began in Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election Thursday, five days after the poll  took place, an official for the Afghan-U.N. Joint Electoral  Management Body said.
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Counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election has concluded, indicating the US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai is the clear winner.
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Afghans turned out in ``massive&#39;&#39; numbers for the nation&#39;s first direct presidential election, a United Nations spokesman said.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said Tuesday, after early returns gave him a commanding advantage.
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Election organisers formally announced the result in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, nearly a month after the poll. The result came after a panel examining voting irregularities said they would not affect the outcome of the election.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy.    After 25 years of near constant war - and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence - voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques, and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time in their history...
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HAMID Karzai has emerged as the undisputed winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential elections after his nearest contender conceded defeat.
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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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KABUL : Observers gave their approval to Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election, deeming it &quot;fairly democratic&quot; and rejecting opposition calls for a re-poll on the grounds of fraud.