Questions About Vote in Afghanistan Fade a Day Later
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Some candidates moderated their stance in light of a consensus proclaiming the election, while not problem-free, a success.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count passed the 80 percent mark with Hamid Karzai holding on to his clear majority, but any potential celebrations were cut short by a Taliban suicide bomb in Kabul.
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The deadline for complaints of irregularities in Afghanistan's election expires shortly - counting is still on hold.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Before Shugofa  Beheshti decides who to vote for in Afghanistan's Oct. 9  presidential election, she wants to hear what the candidates  have to say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Poll stations officially closed in Afghanistanâs historic presidential election on Saturday with no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had vowed to sabotage the process.
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Afghanistan will undergo the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history on October 9, 2004. As if surprised by the fact that Afghans could want a voice in their
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;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.
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The killing in Afghanistan spirals onward, undermining U.S. claims of success in pacifying the country with less than a week to go before an historic experiment with democracy &#151; direct presidential elections.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election got underway Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.    Tallying was delayed slightly in the capital, but it began in many of the other seven counting centers across the country on Thursday morning, said Farooq Wardak, a senior election official...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's historic presidential election turned sour Saturday when all 15 candidates opposing U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai withdrew in the middle of voting, charging the government and the United Nations with fraud and incompetence.    In the end, faulty ink - not Taliban bombs and bullets - threatened three years of painstaking progress toward democracy...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into counting centers Monday for a tally of the troubled 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...
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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Counting of votes from Afghanistan's election is delayed until the shape of an inquiry into alleged flaws is announced.
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6 October 2004 -- Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election drew to a close today amid violence, as the nation prepares to cast ballots in its first democratic vote on 9 October.
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Counting of ballots began in Afghanistan Thursday, five days after the country&#39;s first direct elections for president, the BBC reported.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election closed on Saturday without any of the feared  large-scale violence, but the vote was thrown into turmoil when  most candidates said a flawed process made the poll invalid.