Runner-up for Afghanistan's top post to form opposition party
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The runner-up to Hamid Karzai in historic presidential elections congratulated the Afghan leader yesterday on the formation of his Cabinet and said he is forming an opposition party.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is leading his rivals in the country&#39;s first presidential vote after two decades of civil war, drawing support from the southern and eastern border with
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Afghanistan has held its first direct national elections to vote for a new president. Interim President Hamid Karzai is being challenged by 15 other candidates.
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A leading opposition candidate won his party's nomination Saturday for this year's presidential election, the first time an incumbent president has faced a credible challenge in Kenya.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s main rival, his former Education Minister Mohammad Yunus Qanuni, has formed a political party to contest the April parliamentary election.
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December 26, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - A man who refused to serve in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s Cabinet said yesterday he was forming a new political party to contest a parliamentary election in April.
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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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Following are brief profiles of the leading candidates in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election to be held on Saturday.
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The main rival of President Hamid Karzai has conceded defeat in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election with less than six per cent of the vote left to be counted.
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A party that supports the former prime minister appeared to be ahead of one backed by the generals who ousted him.
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A day after naming his new cabinet,  Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai said he had asked his main  rival to form a national political party ahead of parliamentary  elections due in April.
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NAUDERO, Pakistan  - Benazir Bhutto's party appointed her son and her husband to succeed the slain Pakistani opposition leader on Sunday and the party said it would take part in a Jan 8 election as Bhutto would have wanted.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Weekend counting shows interim President Hamid Karzai is well ahead of his rivals and on course to become Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected leader.
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The opposition boycott that threatened to wreck Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election appeared to be crumbling yesterday, as the leading opposition candidate said he would recognise
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Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal will take her place as leader of Pakistan's biggest opposition party, a close relative said today
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's counternarcotics minister has resigned only weeks after Afghan laborers finished cultivating an opium poppy crop that could exceed last year's record haul.
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President Hamid Karzai has been wooing his main rival in the presidential race, Yunus Qanooni, to persuade him to drop out and join Mr.