Women Reveal Wishes for Afghan Election
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As Bibi Gul voted in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election Saturday, she cried recalling how she lost her husband to war, raised five children under the Taliban and was threatened with having her hand chopped off if she dared cast her ballot.
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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Afghanistan will hold its first presidential election in decades on October 9th. Among the 18 candidates vying for office is incumbent President Hamid Karzai, a respected but sometimes controversial figure
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Women stage a rare demonstration in Afghanistan calling for the release of a kidnapped US aid worker.
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Afghans are voting in a historic poll that aimed to give the mountainous and impoverished Islamic nation its first elected president and perhaps end over a quarter-century of war.
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Qalai Zaman Khan, Afghanistan -- Masooda Jalal, the woman who would be president of Afghanistan, stands inside the mud walls of a bread bakery in this hardscrabble village on the outskirts of Kabul.
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Afghanistan's first presidential vote was fair, says favourite, Hamid Karzai, as most candidates demand a repoll.
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai promised Afghans greater security when they go to vote in the country's first ever democratic election during an independence day speech on Wednesday.
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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MOSCOW, Nov 5 (IPS) - Several women leaders are hoping for a higher  representation in parliament after the Dec. 2 elections than the  present 10 percent.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans crammed polling stations for their country's first-ever direct election Saturday, defying the threat of Taliban violence in the hope of bringing peace and some economic prosperity after more than two decades of war.    Voters stood in line for hours outside polling stations in bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals, while more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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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 - 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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A 19-year-old Afghan woman, living as a refugee in neighboring Pakistan, was the first citizen to vote in her home country&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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Three UN election workers who were freed yesterday nearly a month after being abducted in Afghanistan have spoken of their gratitude to the Afghan people for supporting them during their plight.
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The Afghan presidential campaign officially opened yesterday with the country&#39;s first female candidate holding a women&#39;s rally in the capital promising to end poverty, bring peace