Candidate Aims to Unify Karzai Opposition
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan Oct. 4, 2004 - A leading opposition contender in Afghanistan&#39;s upcoming landmark presidential elections said Monday he was talking with other top candidates about joining forces
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s deputies campaigned for him on Saturday ahead of presidential elections seven days later, while the candidate himself prepared to fly to Germany to collect an international award.
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The main opponent of President Hamid Karzai in Saturday&#39;s elections in Afghanistan is backing off from a boycott of the vote-count.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai swore in a new Cabinet yesterday, promising the 27-strong group will leave their ethnicities and regional interests at the door to work for all of Afghanistan and pledging swift action against any minister who does not pull his weight.
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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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For a man whose election victory in  October was never in doubt, Afghanistan's President Hamid  Karzai is taking his time picking a cabinet from a lineup of  military strongmen and civilians returning from the West.
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KABUL  - Incumbent leader Hamid Karzai&#39;s chief rival Yunus Qanooni told AFP he would accept the outcome of Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election despite his allegations of fraud.
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Former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of one of the largest political parties in Afghanistan, declared his support on Sunday for President Hamid Karzai ahead of the presidential election on Saturday.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s inauguration as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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WASHINGTON, October 08 (Online): As Afghans prepare for their first presidential elections on October 9, President Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, is being challenged by over a dozen factional leaders, but most Afghans and international officials expect him to
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The main political rival to Afghanistan's  President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday he was forming a new  political party to contest a parliamentary election in April  after refusing to take a cabinet post.
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Threatened by the Taliban, surrounded by security forces and watched by the second tier of the Bush administration, Hamid Karzai is due to be inaugurated as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president this morning.
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KABUL: Yunus Qanooni, chief rival to incumbent Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, said Wednesday he would accept the outcome of the countryâs presidential poll âin the national interestâ despite his allegations of fraud.
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President Hamid Karzai chose a new cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions and creating a new post to spearhead the fight against opium production.
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The chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he and several other presidential contenders are withdrawing their rejection of Saturday's election.
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Official figures show that Hamid Karzai is on the way to winning Afghanistan's first presidential elections.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election campaign got underway yesterday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the