Karzai views Afghan election as &quot;defeat of terrorism&quot;
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai told the BBC on Sunday that his country&#39;s first post-war presidential election could be viewed as a &quot;defeat of terrorism&quot; and a &quot;success&quot; for the Afghan people.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (24/12/04) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has used his recent election victory to squeeze leaders of Uzbek and Tajik militias out of their cabinet posts.
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai says he is deeply disturbed by a bomb attack in the capital Kabul in which at least seven people died.
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai says he hopes the country&#39;s first direct presidential election on October 9 will be decided in the first round.
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US-backed Hamid Karzai has been officially declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election. Wednesday&#39;s announcement came almost a month after eight million Afghans defied threats of violence to vote in the elections.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai last night won Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote, but a suicide bombing offered a lethal reminder of the dangers still facing the war-weary nation.
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President Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board this afternoon after an international
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai was strongly favored in early results from the vote count of Afganistan&#39;s landmark presidential ballot yesterday as elections workers took a break to mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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The leader of Afghanistan&#39;s interim government, Hamid Karzai, has been officially declared the winner of last month&#39;s presidential election.
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KABUL -- Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president yesterday, vowing to battle terrorism and the booming narcotics trade and calling for continued international support for his country's fledgling democracy.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president last night, opening a new chapter for the impoverished nation that became the first battlefield in the US-led war on terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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CAIRO, October 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai is confident in his victory at the direct presidential election in the country on October 9, his spokesman Hamid Elmi said on Tuesday.
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Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman in Afghanistan, while President Hamid Karzai told the U.N. Wednesday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan, 6 October 2004 - Wartime security was rolled out for Afghanistanâs interim President Hamid Karzai as he addressed his first election campaign rally outside the capital yesterday amid spiraling violence.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan have reaffirmed they are partners in fighting terrorism, Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared Tuesday at the end of a two-day visit.
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai  promised Afghans greater security when they go to vote in the  country's first ever democratic election during an independence  day speech on Wednesday.