Karzai Clinches Afghan Poll Win, Rival Concedes
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President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s transitional leader Hamid Karzai has won the war-shattered country&#39;s first-ever presidential election. the announcement came after a special panel endorsed the election results as free and fair.
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Early results from the Afghan election suggest interim president Hamid Karzai has won enough votes for victory.
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Hamid Karzai remained on course on Friday to win Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but with a quarter of the vote still to be counted, rivals were whittling
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up yesterday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.
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Description: Interim President Hamid Karzai is the unofficial winner of this month&#39;s Afghan national elections, according to preliminary results.
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President Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board this afternoon after an international
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Preliminary figures in the Afghan poll suggest interim Hamid Karzai has won enough votes to be elected.
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KABUL, Oct 11  - A breakthrough agreement on Afghanistan&#39;s disputed presidential election was reached on Monday when the main rival to President Hamid Karzai said he would accept the result of the vote after an independent inquiry into charges of
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Hamid Karzaiâs chief rivals in Afghanistanâs presidential election conceded defeat today after the US-backed interim leader was declared its first popularly elected leader.
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Hamid Karzai clinched a majority of the votes cast in Afghanistan's first presidential election, near-complete results showed Sunday, leaving him all but certain of becoming his war-wrecked nation's first democratically elected leader.
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US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai was nearing victory in Afghanistanâs presidential vote, election officials said, as the number of ballots counted passed the half way mark.
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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 Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board Wednesday after an international panel announced that irregularities it had investigated
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai is winning 55.4 percent of the vote in the country&#39;s first presidential election as counting nears an end, the United Nations said on its Web site.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- An Afghan electoral board spokesman says Hamid Karzai is the winner of that country&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on  course Tuesday for an outright victory in the country's  historic presidential election with more than a quarter of the  votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.