Nearly 750,000 Afghan Refugees Sign Up to Vote
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Nearly three quarters of a million  Afghan refugees living in Pakistan registered to vote in their  country's first direct presidential polls this weekend,  ignoring warnings not to do so from Islamic militants.
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About 30,000 Afghans rallied at what was once a Taliban execution center in Kabul on Friday to press President Hamid Karzai to approve a blanket amnesty for 25 years of war crimes.
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In a historic step, some 10 million Afghans are set to cast their first-ever ballots for president Saturday.
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This nation&#39;s first presidential election took a step toward legitimacy Sunday when Afghan and international officials celebrated the turnout of millions of
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World News, KABUL - Voting began in Afghanistan Saturday for the first direct presidential election in the countryâs history. Some 10.
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For the first time since independence in 1919, voters in Afghanistan will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president. Enthusiasm is high: more than 11 million registered
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 9, 2004 - Afghans crammed polling stations for their country&#39;s first-ever direct election Saturday, defying the threat of Taliban violence in the hope of bringing peace and some economic
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The vote tally under way on Friday in Afghanistanâs landmark election was widely expected to yield an election victory for US -backed interim leader Hamid Karzai, which would install him as the war-ravaged countryâs first
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After delays over fraud charges and boycott threats, the vote count in Afghanistan's presidential election finally began, five days after millions of men and women defied the Taliban to have their first say in their country's destiny.
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KABUL Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way on Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election got under way Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.    The tallying began in many of the eight counting centers across the country, but was delayed in the capital, said Farooq Wardak, a senior election official...
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Afghanistan has held its first direct national elections to vote for a new president. Interim President Hamid Karzai is being challenged by 15 other candidates.
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President Hamid Karzai rarely misses an opportunity to laud Afghanistan's 3 million former refugees for "voting with their feet" by returning to support their homeland's budding democracy.
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Afghanistan's historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country's first popularly elected president.
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Afghans began voting Saturday in a  historic poll which will give the mountainous Islamic nation on  the ancient Silk Road its first elected president and perhaps  end over a quarter-century of war.
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Afghan refugees thronged polling stations in Pakistan and Iran on Saturday to vote in their war-torn homeland's landmark presidential election &#151; undeterred by explosions at or near two refugee camps.
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KABUL - Hamid Karzai was preparing on Saturday to celebrate victory in Afghanistanâs first presidential elections as he maintained a clear majority with more than 75 percent of the vote counted.