Ashdown pulls out of Afghan race
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Britain's Paddy Ashdown says he has withdrawn his name from the list of possible UN envoys to Afghanistan.
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A senior EU official and another from the United Nations left Afghanistan on Thursday after the Afghan government ordered their expulsion, accusing both of holding talks with the insurgent Taliban and for paying cash to the group.
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Domestic Afghan politics were behind President Hamid Karzai's veto of Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy there, the senior British diplomat said Sunday.
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KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed a powerful warlord from his post as provincial governor Saturday in the latest move to solidify the central governmentâs control of wayward provinces ahead of Octoberâs landmark polls.
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Several candidates in Afghanistan's  presidential election appear set to drop calls for a boycott of the result.
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Another top rival to Afghan election  frontrunner President Hamid Karzai ended his boycott of the  process on Wednesday, but vote counting was further delayed as  a panel began to sift through dozens of complaints of fraud.
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KABUL, Afghanistan The top challengers in the Afghan presidential election are conceding defeat to Hamid Karzai (HAH&#39;-mihd KAHR&#39;-zeye).
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed a powerful warlord from his post as provincial governor in the latest move to solidify the central government's control of wayward provinces ahead of October's landmark polls.
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(SH) - In Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai defeated a raft of candidates to win his historic election. In Iraq, more than 200 political parties have registered for next month&#39;s elections.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Poll stations officially closed in Afghanistanâs historic presidential election on Saturday with no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had vowed to sabotage the process.
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Former defence minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Yunus Qanooni, who stepped down as education minister to run against Karzai for president, were pushed out.
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Even before the polling booths closed in Afghanistanâs first-ever direct presidential election, all 15 candidates running against incumbent Hamid Karzai denounced
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai broke off from a speech and was escorted safely away from a ceremony at Kabul's sports arena on Sunday after shots were fired outside the stadium, a defense ministry spokesman said.
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Afghanistan makes it clear it does not want Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy to the country.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai  on Tuesday dismissed a call he resign as unconstitutional, but  said it was the right of a group of challengers who made the  demand to withdraw from the Oct. 9 presidential election.
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Mr Qanooni, 47, quit Mr Karzai&#39;s cabinet months before the ballot to spearhead a bid by the mainly Tajik Northern Alliance of anti-Taliban and anti-Soviet war heroes to unseat the interim Pashtun leader.
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Former Law and Order actor withdraws from the race for the Republican nomination