Liberty moves Afghan voters
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The power of liberty has been demonstrated again, in the arid valleys of Afghanistan, where millions have defied terrorist threats and turned out in droves for the nation&#39;s first free and fair election.
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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's election  bandwagon creaked into motion on Tuesday with a leading  candidate drawing the biggest crowd of the campaign so far.
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Parigul is a widowed mother in Afghanistan. When her country goes to the polls today in its first democratic elections, Parigul says she will not be celebrating.
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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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KABULâTrying to pull off Afghanistan&#39;s first national presidential vote this Saturday will be a daunting task in this war-ravaged country largely lacking roads, security, electricity, phones and even literate voters.
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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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After more than two decades of war, Afghanistan votes today in its first Presidential elections. And with the Taliban threatening to disrupt the polls, security is very tight across the country.
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MASOODA Jalal has been clocking up some high mileage on the campaign trail for Afghanistanâs presidential election. The only woman candidate to stand in the October 9 vote, Jalal
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Ballots from Afghanistan's first direct  presidential election poured into collection centers across the  country on Tuesday, brought by donkey, road and helicopter.
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SHAHBET, Afghanistan  - Plans for Afghanistan's  first democratic election in October mean little to Ismail Khan  as he strides across a hill top, satellite phone in hand,  flanked by commanders and a battle tank at his back.
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Afghans voted Saturday 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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Afghans have one day left to make up their minds about who to vote for as their country's first elected president even though threats of violent reprisals by Taliban militants may deter some from casting their ballots.
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Election officials in Afghanistan  collected ballots on Sunday from a historic presidential vote  which started enthusiastically but ended in turmoil after most  of the candidates announced a boycott.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential vote,  which was held with great enthusiasm but ended in turmoil after  most candidates announced a boycott, was mostly fair,  independent observers said Sunday.
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Three years after the September 11 attacks on the United States changed the course of Afghanistan's history, the shattered nation votes Saturday in unprecedented presidential elections.
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From the thriving centre of Kabul to remote mountain villages, Afghans go to the polls on Saturday still under the shadow of the old regimes.
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VOTING began in Afghanistan today for the first direct presidential election in the country&#39;s history. Some 10.5 million registered voters are eligible to select a president from a total of 18 candidates.