Abuses in Afghan Campaign, But UN Sees Fair Vote
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The campaign for Afghanistan's landmark  presidential election has been marred by intimidation and  official partiality, the United Nations said on Sunday, but it  expects this week's vote to be relatively free and fair.
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Campaigning is under  way for Afghanistan's presidential poll, amid warnings of insecurity and intimidation.
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A series of bombs went off at a U.N. voter registration office in western Afghanistan, injuring six policemen, setting vehicles ablaze and shattering windows, police and the United Nations said Friday. It was the latest in a string of attacks targeting election workers.
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by our Internet desk, 17 september 2004. Thursday&#39;s attempt to assassinate US-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai underlines fears that the country is anything but ready to hold free and fair elections within a month.
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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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A UN worker piles up the materials and equipment at the counting center after completing the counting of votes in Kabul on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.
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Afghan officials have delayed counting ballots in a historic presidential election to deal with complaints of fraud, but several of the candidates appear to be pulling
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United Nations, 8 October 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Anna Cataldi says the concept of democratic elections -- at least in the way they are perceived in Western societies -- is a mystery to most Afghans, who for the last 25 years have lived in an almost constant
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai is winning 55.4 percent of the vote in the country&#39;s first presidential election as counting nears an end, the United Nations said on its Web site.
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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The world must not neglect  Afghanistan now that its presidential election is over because  upcoming parliamentary and local elections will be far harder  to manage, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    In the second deadly incident surrounding the election, five people - including at least one election worker - were killed by an explosion as they drove near the Pakistan border, the joint U.N.-Afghan electoral commission said...
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Afghanistan has a chance for real political legitimacy when voters go to the polls in the country's first post-Taliban presidential election, the UN's envoy to the nation said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Campaigning for Afghanistan's first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate.    Despite persistent violence, the United Nations declared this hard-luck nation ready for Saturday's vote, a historic experiment with democracy after more than two decades of unrelenting ruin, from Soviet occupation to civil war to the repressive Taliban and the thunderous U.S...
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential elections are due to take place in just two weeks. Senior US military officials are warning that Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters are increasing their efforts to undermine the vote.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai said they would boycott the outcome because of potential fraud in the system designed to keep voters from casting more than one ballot.    The opponents of the U.S.-backed Karzai - who was heavily favored to win - demanded that the election be abandoned, arguing that problems with the ink used to mark voters' thumbs opened the way for widespread multiple voting...