Peril at polls as Afghans learn to vote
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KABULâTrying to pull off Afghanistan&#39;s first national presidential vote this Saturday will be a daunting task in this war-ravaged country largely lacking roads, security, electricity, phones and even literate voters.
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Afghans are voting in a historic poll that aimed to give the mountainous and impoverished Islamic nation its first elected president and perhaps end over a quarter-century of war.
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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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Afghans turned out to vote in large numbers on Saturday, but Hamid Karzai and his rivals disputed the integrity of the vote.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- In schools and mosques, wearing suits and burkas, Afghans voted yesterday in the first presidential election, and did not suffer the widespread violence that officials had feared. But the ballot was thrown into doubt when candidates challenging interim President Hamid Karzai called the results invalid after many stations used the wrong ink to mark voters' thumbs.
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Afghanistanâs historic moment turned sour as all 15 challengers to interim Afghan President Hamid Karzai withdrew in the middle of voting in the nationâs first direct presidential election today.
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Afghanistan's historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country's first popularly elected president.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s first ever national election was in crisis as opposition candidates demanded fresh polls, charging widespread fraud, after eager voters turned out in force for a peaceful vote hoping for an end to decades of conflict.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential elections on Saturday will fall far short of internationally-accepted standards, analysts say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai alleged fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once and vowed to boycott the results.    But electoral officials rejected the candidates' call to abandon the rest of the balloting, saying it would rob millions of voters of their chance to cast ballots and that they would rule later on the legitimacy of the election...
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The Afghan rebels had threatened violence to disrupt Saturday's elections, but failed to deliver.
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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 -- Elections heralded as the dawn of democracy in war-ravaged Afghanistan will be hijacked by warlords able to intimidate voters and candidates to entrench their own power, a leading rights group warned today.
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As Bibi Gul voted in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election Saturday, she cried recalling how she lost her husband to war, raised five children under the Taliban and was threatened with having her hand chopped off if she dared cast her ballot.
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World News, KABUL - Voting began in Afghanistan Saturday for the first direct presidential election in the countryâs history. Some 10.
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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 first-ever presidential vote puts this nation of mud-brick houses and tribal fiefdoms on the edge of an improbable experiment with democracy.