One million Afghan votes counted
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim leader Hamid Karzai has a 45-point lead after the first million votes were counted in the country&#39;s presidential poll.
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Afghanistan&#39;s electoral commission gave the go-ahead for counting to begin today in the disputed presidential election after charges of fraudulent multiple voting forced a delay.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai took an early lead as vote counting began in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, after allegations of ballot-box stuffing, voter
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai alleged fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once and vowed to boycott the results.    But electoral officials rejected the candidates' call to abandon the rest of the balloting, saying it would rob millions of voters of their chance to cast ballots and that they would rule later on the legitimacy of the election...
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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The counting of votes in Afghanistan's presidential election has been completed, the election commission said.
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Counting of ballots began in Afghanistan Thursday, five days after the country&#39;s first direct elections for president, the BBC reported.
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The head of the Afghan-UN electoral commission has kicked off vote counting in Kabul. The official cut the seal of a ballot box to start the tallying process in the capital of Afghanistan.
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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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With 99 percent of the votes still to be  counted in Afghanistan's presidential election, incumbent Hamid  Karzai had taken a lead that many observers expect him to  retain right to the end of a marathon count.
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More than 1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have registered to vote in upcoming municipal and general elections, officials said yesterday, completing
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A Human Rights Watch report says that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2006.
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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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KABUL - Interim leader Hamid Karzai holds about 70 per cent of the votes counted so far after Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election hung on a pot of ink in the end. Even as the ballot boxes from Saturday&#39;s presidential election were on their way to the counting stations, intensive
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s vote count has reached 99 percent, with incumbent Hamid Karzai on a landslide 55.3 percent of votes with a 39 percentage point lead over his nearest rival.
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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.