Karzai holds big lead over rivals in early Afghan election returns
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Early results yesterday showed interim leader Hamid Karzai far ahead of his chief rivals in Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election after a quarter-century of war.
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KABUL - Interim leader Hamid Karzai holds about 70 per cent of the votes counted so far after Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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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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More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up Tuesday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.
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Hamid Karzai remained on course on Friday  to win Afghanistan's first direct presidential election, but  with a quarter of the vote still to be counted, rivals were  whittling down his lead to possibly force a run-off.
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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.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai has won a majority of estimated votes cast in Afghanistan's landmark presidential elections, according to preliminary results released Sunday.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s vote count has reached 99 percent, with incumbent Hamid Karzai on a landslide 55.3 percent of votes with a 39 percentage point lead over his nearest rival.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Interim leader Hamid Karzai widened his early lead Saturday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, but the deaths of two US soldiers and three Afghan children in bomb attacks underscored that peace and security still elude much of the
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Pakistan opposition parties took commanding leads in unofficial returns early Tuesday in Parliamentary elections
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Hamid Karzaiâs rivals say itâs still too early to concede Afghanistanâs inaugural presidential election, despite the interim leaderâs dominant showing after three days of vote-counting.
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With one-third of the votes counted in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, Hamid Karzai was leading with 64 per cent, and his campaign team said Tuesday it was certain the interim leader will win with the simple
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai drew &quot;great happiness&quot; from his lead in Afghanistan's presidential election, his spokesman said, but will not claim victory until results are officially certified.
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President Hamid Karzai maintained his early lead in Afghanistan's election after just over eight percent of the ballots had been counted, the election commission said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai moved closer to winning his country's first presidential election, taking a substantial lead over his nearest rival with more than 60 percent of votes counted, according to official results.
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October 21, 2004 -- KABUL - Interim leader Hamid Karzai remained on course to win Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election as the vote count passed the halfway mark yesterday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on course on Tuesday for an outright victory in the country's historic presidential election with almost a quarter of the votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.