Karzai overcomes obstacles on way to final victory in Afghan polls
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Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai, having gained over 54 percent of the votes counted so far,has successfully surmounted all the barriers towards final victory,an official of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said.
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President Hamid Karzai clinched victory  in Afghanistan's historic presidential poll as his main rival  conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the  final votes on Monday.
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More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up Tuesday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.
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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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25 October 2004 -- With nearly all the votes counted, Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai appears on his way to an outright victory in the initial round of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election.
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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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Interim leader Hamid Karzai nudged closer to victory in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential poll with nearly two-thirds of the vote counted, officials said Thursday.
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the Afghan election, securing over 55 % and paving for the way for him to become the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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With over half the votes counted by  Thursday, Hamid Karzai was on course to win Afghanistan's first  democratic presidential election, the climax of momentous  change brought by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United  States.
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Hamid Karzai was cruising to victory in Afghanistan's first direct presidential elections, but by Wednesday the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault lines that have often divided the country.
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President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai is the official winner of last month&#39;s historic Afghan presidential election, the body organizing the vote said on Wednesday.
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Hamid Karzai has been declared as Afghanistan&#39;s president after an electoral commission concluded that vote rigging had not affected the result.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than half the votes have been counted in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, and President Hamid Karzai is said to be running well ahead of his rivals.
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With almost half the votes counted in Afghanistan&#39;s election Wednesday, Karzai looked set to win a clear victory with 61.4 percent of the votes already under his belt.
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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
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of last month&#39;s Afghan presidential election Wednesday and now faces the task of forming a government minus the warlords and drug runners who tainted his last cabinet.