Afghan Leader Tries to Persuade Main Rival to Quit Election Race
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President Hamid Karzai has been wooing his main rival in the presidential race, Yunus Qanooni, to persuade him to drop out and join Mr.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai returns  home on Monday with less than a week to go before a historic  election with the opposition scrambling to present a unified  challenge to the heavily favored incumbent.
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KABUL: Yunus Qanooni, chief rival to incumbent Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, said Wednesday he would accept the outcome of the countryâs presidential poll âin the national interestâ despite his allegations of fraud.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed a call that he resign as unconstitutional, but said his challengers had the right to make the demand.
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WASHINGTON, October 08 (Online): As Afghans prepare for their first presidential elections on October 9, President Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, is being challenged by over a dozen factional leaders, but most Afghans and international officials expect him to
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The two main rivals in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election threw themselves into campaigning Tuesday, drawing crowds of supporters four days before a vote that
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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 leader Hamid Karzai has effectively tried to sideline a powerful regional rival by promoting him to cabinet minister less than a month before presidential elections on Oct. 9. Ismail
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The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan&#39;s election and accused the UN-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.
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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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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an  assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters a  historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the  war-torn nation.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - All 15 candidates running against interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai signed an agreement Saturday boycotting the vote because of what they say is widespread fraud, and say they will not recognize the election results.    The announcement was read out after a meeting of candidates and their representatives at the home of Abdul Satar Sirat, an Uzbek who is an ex-aide to Afghanistan's last king...
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Before Shugofa Beheshti decides who to vote for in Afghanistan's Oct. 9 presidential election, she wants to hear what the candidates have to say.
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Candidates in Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election kicked off the final day of campaigning Wednesday, with interim leader Hamid Karzai and one of his chief
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s main opponent in a landmark election took center stage on Saturday, while the incumbent, almost invisible during the campaign amid security
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Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar  urges supporters to continue the fight for Afghan 'independence'.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s main rival, his former Education Minister Mohammad Yunus Qanuni, has formed a political party to contest the April parliamentary election.