Ballots Collected in Afghanistan as Crisis Eases
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Ballots from Afghanistan's first direct  presidential election poured into collection centers across the  country Tuesday, brought by donkey, road and helicopter.
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Vote counting has finally started in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, held last weekend, after a probe into fraud allegations halted the process.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Interim leader Hamid Karzai has clinched a majority of the votes in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election under near-complete results Monday, leaving him all but certain of becoming this war-wrecked nation&#39;s first democratically
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's historic presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy, and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence.    After 25 years of near-constant war, voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time as more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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The crisis surrounding Afghanistan's historic presidential election appeared to end on Monday as President Hamid Karzai's chief rival said he and other candidates were withdrawing their rejection of the weekend poll.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count is expected to conclude Tuesday but several procedural steps remain before any declaration of incumbent Hamid Karzai&#39;s landslide victory in the historic ballot.
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Election officials are preparing to investigate complaints of fraud and irregularities in Afghanistan's polls, which passed off peacefully with millions of men and women turning out despite the threat of violence.
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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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Vote counting has resumed in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election. Hundreds of election staff got back to work on Saturday after a day of rest marking the beginning of Ramadan.
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The counting of votes after Afghanistan&#39;s historic but contentious first democratic election last weekend resumed on Saturday after a break for the start of Ramadan and new violence across the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan election officials agreed Sunday to create an independent commission to probe opposition charges of fraud in this nation's first-ever presidential poll, while ballot-boxes stuffed with the aspirations of the people of this war-ravaged land started to stack up in counting centers.    International officials met privately in an effort to end a boycott of the ballot by opponents of U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai, a heavy favorite to win...
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Afghanistan was set to start counting votes on Wednesday from a historic presidential election after several candidates backed off from declaring the poll illegal.
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Afghanistan&#39;s election had problems ranging from delible ink to untrained poll workers, but those flaws did not tarnish the remarkable accomplishment of a nation, which only three years ago was under control of the oppressive Taliban, holding its first
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A UN worker piles up the materials and equipment at the counting center after completing the counting of votes in Kabul on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Vote counting in Afghanistan'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.    A top election official said about three-quarters of the 10.5 milion Afghans who registered for the election turned out to vote - despite threats of violence...
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Afghan officials were due to begin  counting votes on Monday after a controversial presidential  election that was in danger of being scrapped but is more  likely to be a turning point in the history of the war-torn  nation.
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An Afghan polling official shows a UN worker, left, a sealed ballot box at a collecting station in the southern city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004.