Afghan refugee vote drive hailed
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A four-day voter registration drive signs up 650,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan for Saturday's landmark election.
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KABUL: At a campaign rally in Minnesota, US President George W Bush hailed democratic progress in Afghanistan and plans for presidential elections next month as &quot;unbelievable&quot;.
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Three UN election workers who were freed yesterday nearly a month after being abducted in Afghanistan have spoken of their gratitude to the Afghan people for supporting them during their plight.
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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's election  bandwagon creaked into motion on Tuesday with a leading  candidate drawing the biggest crowd of the campaign so far.
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Thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan may have failed to catch Osama bin Laden but they are credited with encouraging millions of Afghans to register for the country's historic election in October.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans crammed polling stations for their country's first-ever direct election Saturday, defying the threat of Taliban violence in the hope of bringing peace and some economic prosperity after more than two decades of war.    Voters stood in line for hours outside polling stations in bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals, while more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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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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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai  promised Afghans greater security when they go to vote in the  country's first ever democratic election during an independence  day speech on Wednesday.
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Afghans turned out to vote in large numbers Saturday in their first presidential election, an event that was unexpectedly peaceful but soon marred by 15 candidates
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count has passed one million ballots with incumbent Hamid Karzai firmly in the lead, according to the electoral commission website.
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Britain praised Afghanistan's &quot;inspirational&quot; elections, saying the high turnout was a milestone for the central Asian state recovering from decades of conflict.
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Afghans voted Saturday 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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An afghan electoral worker counts Yunus Qanooni&#39;s ballots papers at the counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 18.
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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Election officials in Afghanistan  collected ballots Sunday from a historic presidential vote in  which millions took part with great enthusiasm but which ended  in turmoil after most of the candidates announced a boycott.
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Thousands of former fighters, including top government figures, rallied Friday to support a proposed amnesty for Afghans suspected of war crimes.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Wartime security was rolled out for Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai as he addressed his first election campaign rally outside the capital amidst spiralling violence.