Calls to void Afghan election ease
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A challenge to the credibility of Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election appeared to recede yesterday as officials said an independent commission would evaluate voting
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A US-brokered ceasefire halted fighting in western Afghanistan yesterday, ending five days of bloodshed that heightened anxieties in the run-up to October&#39;s presidential election.
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As the war-weary Afghans are getting closer to the first-ever presidential polls, the spiraling violence is going to hamper the ongoing stabilization process in the post-war nation, observers here believe.
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election was plunged into crisis on Saturday after 14 of the 18 candidates demanded voting be stopped because of irregularities, casting a pall over the enthusiasm of voters who turned out in force across the troubled country.
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Afghan officials were due to begin  counting votes on Monday after a controversial presidential  election that was in danger of being scrapped but is more  likely to be a turning point in the history of the war-torn  nation.
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Candidates for president in Afghanistan&#39;s first free elections to be held Oct. 9 officially kicked off their campaigns yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it began Saturday, when the 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai said they would boycott the results, alleging fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once.    The boycott undermined hopes of Afghan voters who had braved threats of Taliban violence and crammed polling stations throughout this ethnically diverse nation...
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The United Nations deadline for written complaints of irregularities in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election is due to expire shortly.
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Voters weary of campaign advertising will get a reprieve Monday in the political equivalent of a moment of silence.
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Election officials fanned out across Afghanistan to inspect several dozen suspicious ballot boxes that are delaying the end of the presidential vote count and the declaration of Hamid Karzai as the violence-weary nation's first popularly chosen leader.
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Afghanistan&#39;s election crisis seemed to be over yesterday when the main opposition challenger, Yunus Qanooni, withdrew his threat to boycott the result.
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The overall counting process of the first presidential elections in Afghanistan should be wrapped up by the end of the day, spokesman for the Afghan-UN Joint Electoral Management Body said Tuesday morning.
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Afghans arrange votes in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2004. The Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body decided on Monday to suspend vote counting and start to investigate into the voting process.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - All 15 candidates running against interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai boycotted Afghanistan's historic election Saturday, claiming widespread fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once.    The opposition candidates said they would not recognize the results of the vote because of what election officials described as a mix-up...
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Poll stations officially closed in  Afghanistan's historic presidential election on Saturday with  no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had  vowed to sabotage the process.
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KABUL: Afghanistan presidential election campaign concluded on Wednesday and President Hamid Karzai and his opponent Abdul Rashid Dostam in their public meetings appealed the Afghans to fully participate in the election, as it would be a new turn in the