Karzai wins Afghan presidential poll
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai has won outright victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election according to preliminary results, the interim leader&#39;s supporters and chief rival said Sunday.
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Counting in Afghanistanâs presidential election concluded today, with US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai the clear winner even though some ballot boxes were &quot;obviously stuffed,&quot; election officials said.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on course Tuesday for an outright victory in the country&#39;s historic presidential election with more than a quarter of the votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.
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Hamid Karzai has won Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, a spokesman for the electoral board said Wednesday, after investigators concluded that fraud and technical errors were too minor to overturn his triumph.
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win the country&#39;s landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said after early returns gave Karzai a commanding advantage.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A top election official says vote counting is through in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election. The election&#39;s top technical officer told The Associated Press that US-backed interim president Hamid Karzai is the winner.
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the presidential election, securing a new five-year term as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai is the official winner of last month&#39;s historic Afghan presidential election, the body organizing the vote said on Wednesday.
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Afghan President-elect Hamid Karzai on Wednesday expressed his great happiness and thanked God for the release of the three United Nations employees.
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Counting in Afghanistan's presidential election concluded Tuesday, with U.S.-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai the clear winner, a senior official said.
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai won a landslide  victory in Afghanistan's first ever presidential election at  the weekend, according to an exit poll conducted by a U.S.  think tank.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai was officially declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election yesterday, more than three weeks after votes were cast, giving him a five-year mandate to try to steer this country out of a quarter
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A panel investigating the Afghan presidential elections said Wednesday incumbent President Hamid Karzai won with 55 percent of the vote, the BBC reported.
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An exit poll conducted by an American non-profit group found that interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai won Saturday's first-ever presidential election with the outright majority needed to avoid a second round.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has congratulated Hamid Karzai for his victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election. Mr Karzai, who has been head of Afghanistan&#39;s interim administration since the Taliban
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KABUL, Afghanistan Early results show interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai leading in that country&#39;s first free presidential election.