Observers approve Afghan election
229899
International observers say calls to annul  the Afghan presidential  poll on grounds of fraud are unjustified.
476843
KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into vote counting centers across Afghanistan on Monday, while an independent panel will probe allegations the landmark election was marred by fraud.    Organizers of the vote are hoping the establishment of the panel - made up of about three foreign election experts - will end an opposition boycott that could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
202701
What a difference the ballot makes. The election of Hamid Karzai as the first popularly elected president of Afghanistan is a dramatic affirmation of the power of democracy.
166744
KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count has passed one million ballots with incumbent Hamid Karzai firmly in the lead, according to the electoral commission website.
638479
With victory all but a formality in Afghanistan's historic presidential election, Hamid Karzai waited on Tuesday for the final votes to be counted to confirm his win.
679691
Counting in Afghanistan's presidential election concluded Tuesday, with U.S.-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai the clear winner, a senior official said.
27407
The leader of Afghanistan&#39;s interim government, Hamid Karzai, has been officially declared the winner of last month&#39;s presidential election.
648492
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Monday it agreed with a joint UN-Afghan election board that nullifying Saturday&#39;s national election in Afghanistan was unjustified despite some irregularities in the
286416
Voting has begun in Afghanistan for the first direct presidential election in the country's history.
69665
Afghanistan was set to start counting  votes on Wednesday from a historic presidential election after  several candidates backed off from declaring the poll illegal.
597628
Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election Wednesday, after investigators concluded that a string of irregularities were too minor to overturn his triumph.
435964
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Incumbent Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the body organizing the vote has said.
43089
An Afghan polling official shows a UN worker, left, a sealed ballot box at a collecting station in the southern city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004.
637424
KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into counting centers Monday for a tally of the disputed presidential election in Afghanistan amid signs an opposition boycott was wavering after at least two candidates agreed to accept the ruling of an independent panel's inquiry.    Election organizers hope their decision, announced late Sunday, to establish a panel of about three foreign election experts to investigate the balloting will end the boycott, which many fear could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
629677
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.
130392
Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election Wednesday, after a three-week probe into vote fraud found no grounds to invalidate his triumph.
488351
The counting of votes in Afghanistan's presidential election has been completed, the election commission said.