Afghans vote peacefully
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Millions of enthusiastic Afghans stood in line and voted â-ithout any large-scale attacks that many had feared â -the nation chose its first-ever directly elected leader.
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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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With victory all but a formality in Afghanistan's historic presidential election, Hamid Karzai waited on Tuesday for the final votes to be counted to confirm his win.
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Election officials in Afghanistan have collected ballots from a historic presidential vote, which started enthusiastically but ended in turmoil after most of the candidates announced a boycott.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - The western Afghan city of  Herat was calm Monday following bloody clashes between  supporters of the powerful ousted governor and U.S. and Afghan  forces sent to keep the peace.
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Workers put empty ballot boxes out after completing the counting of votes from Afghan exiles in Pakistan in Kabul on Tuesday, Oct. 26.
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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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Troops of Pakistani para-military force check Afghan refugee voters before they enter in polling station to vote in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election at Jallozai camp near Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.
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About 740,000 Afghans who fled violence and repression at home are expected to vote in Saturday's election.
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Afghanistan&#39;s presidential elections came off with little violence but some damaging controversy. President Hamid Karzai&#39;s 15 opponents charged vote fraud.
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With voting concluded, Afghans started the process of counting the ballots cast in the nation&#39;s first-ever presidential election -- one marred by opposition protests.
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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  instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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The mere fact of tomorrow&#39;s presidential elections in Afghanistan is cause for (subdued) celebration. Afghans are headed to the polls in the country&#39;s first-ever &quot;democratic&quot; election, and early indications
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KABUL : Observers gave their approval to Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election, deeming it &quot;fairly democratic&quot; and rejecting opposition calls for a re-poll on the grounds of fraud.
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Afghans arrange votes in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2004. The Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body decided on Monday to suspend vote counting and start to investigate into the voting process.
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Election officials in Afghanistan  collected ballots on Sunday from a historic presidential vote  which started enthusiastically but ended in turmoil after most  of the candidates announced a boycott.
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President Hamid Karzai has won a majority of votes in Afghanistan&#39;s election, clinching a five-year term and becoming the country&#39;s first democratically elected leader