Karzai Takes Early Lead in Afghan Count
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Interim leader Hamid Karzai took an early lead as vote counting began in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election, after allegations of ballot-box stuffing, voter intimidation and multiple voting forced five days of delay.    The tally was halted Friday so the 1,000 Afghans on the counting staff could have the day off to celebrate the start of Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is leading his rivals in the country&#39;s first presidential vote after two decades of civil war, drawing support from the southern and eastern border with
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai remains on course to retain his position as counting continues in the country&#39;s first democratic election.
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October 21, 2004 -- KABUL - Interim leader Hamid Karzai remained on course to win Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election as the vote count passed the halfway mark yesterday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai moved closer to winning his country's first presidential election, taking a substantial lead over his nearest rival with more than 60 percent of votes counted, according to official results.
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With 99 percent of the votes still to be counted in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, incumbent Hamid Karzai had taken a lead that many observers expect him to retain right to the end of a marathon count.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Preliminary results from Afghanistan&#39;s landmark elections show President Hamid Karzai well ahead of his rivals and on course to become the country&#39;s first popularly elected leader.
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Preliminary figures in the Afghan poll suggest interim Hamid Karzai has won enough votes to be elected.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai has won a majority of estimated votes cast in Afghanistan's landmark presidential elections, according to preliminary results released Sunday.
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The incumbent Afghan president HamidKarzai has taken lead in the presidential polls as he had secured 77 percent of the votes counted so far, a spokesman of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said Saturday.
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With half the votes counted and interim leader Hamid Karzai still holding a 40-point lead, the race for the Afghan presidency could be virtually decided by late yesterday, a top election official said.
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A UN worker sorts Hamid Karzai&#39;s ballot papers at a counting center in Kabul on Tuesday, Oct. 26. 2004. With 97.7 percent of ballots counted, Karzai has 55.
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Vote counting started Thursday in Afghanistan's landmark election, widely expected to install U.S.-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai as the war-ravaged country's first popularly chosen president.
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President Hamid Karzai maintained his early lead in Afghanistan's election after just over eight percent of the ballots had been counted, the election commission said.
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Official figures show that Hamid Karzai is on the way to winning Afghanistan's first presidential elections.
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KABUL -- Early results showed interim leader Hamid Karzai far ahead of his chief rivals yesterday in Afghanistan&#39;s first democratic presidential election after 25 years of war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Interim leader Hamid Karzai widened his early lead Saturday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, but the deaths of two US soldiers and three Afghan children in bomb attacks underscored that peace and security still elude much of the