&#39;Heavy poll bias&#39; towards Karzai
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Five days before Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, concerns are growing about media bias in favour of front-runner President Hamid Karzai.
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The UK hits back at claims by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that UK troops are making the country's situation worse.
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Hamid Karzai is about to win in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but the returns show that dangerous ethnic divides could become a major problem if he wins.
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The likely runner-up in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election alleged on Monday that the vote was marred by cheating, as President Hamid Karzai appeared
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President Hamid Karzai angrily criticised Saturday &quot;indiscriminate and unprecise&quot; operations by NATO- and US-led forces in Afghanistan, which he said had killed 90 civilians in just over a week.
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Karzai. One was not considered to have a wide following but the other, Sayed Ishaq Gailani, is from one of the. vote he needs to avoid a November runoff.
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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KABUL, Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai is certain to win Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election with the simple majority needed to avoid a run-off, his campaign team says, with one-third of the votes counted and Karzai pulling 64 percent.
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The vote count in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election has resumed with interim President Hamid Karzai far ahead of his rivals in early results.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    Karzai, Afghanistan's stopgap president since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, had captured 62.6 percent of the 1.04 million ballots counted by Monday - about 13 percent of the vote...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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Hamid Karzai remained on course on Friday to win Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but with a quarter of the vote still to be counted, rivals were whittling
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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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President Hamid Karzai is close to winning the Afghan presidential poll, with nearly 60% of the votes and more than half the ballots counted.
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The incumbent Afghan president HamidKarzai has taken lead in the presidential polls as he had secured 77 percent of the votes counted so far, a spokesman of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said Saturday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election hung on a pot of ink in the end. Even as the ballot boxes from Saturday&#39;s presidential election were on their way to the counting stations, intensive
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With 99 percent of the votes still to be counted in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, incumbent Hamid Karzai had taken a lead that many observers expect him to retain right to the end of a marathon count.