Afghanistan Polls

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  Dozens Of Casualties As Multiple Blasts Hit Kabul Polling Centres

  Multiple explosions rocked polling centres across Kabul on Saturday, as voters cast their ballots in long-delayed legislative elections.

• Presidential Candidate Abdullah Demands Halt to Afghanistan Vote Count Over 'Fraud'

  Afghan presidential election candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday demanded a halt to vote-counting over fraud allegations, raising the prospect of a political crisis during the country's first democratic transition of power.

• Afghanistan election scores 58 per cent turnout: commission chief

  Turnout from Afghanistan's presidential election was seven million out of 12 million eligible voters, or about 58 percent, election commission chief Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani said on Saturday.

• Afghans vote for parliament amid threats, attacks

  Men in traditional tunics and women covered in sky-blue burqas trickled into polling centers to vote in Afghanistan's parliamentary election Saturday, as scattered attacks and the closure of some voting sites by insurgents underscored the difficulty of trying to hold a vote in a country at war.At least two people were killed in the first hours of p...

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  Afghan polls: Karzai inches closer to lead

  Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has moved into a clear lead in the controversial race for the presidency.

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  Afghan latest vote result release deferred

  Afghan electoral authorities have cancelled the scheduled release on Saturday of the latest tranche of results from controversial elections.

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  Afghan vote fraud allegations mount

  The outcry over alleged vote fraud in Afghanistan's election has escalated, with Karzai's chief opponent charging that turnout figures were padded.

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  Karzai, US term Afghan polls a success

  Afghanstan President Hamid Karzai and his Western allies have pronounced the country's election a success.

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  Voter turnout good in Afghan; could reach 50%

  Afghanistan's election authority has said that turnout in Thursday's presidential and provincial polls was "very good".

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  Afghanistan votes today; Karzai the leading contender

  After becoming the country's first popularly elected president in 2004, Hamid Karzai is the leading contender in today's vote.

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  Afghanistan goes to polls in shadow of threats

  For only the second time in its history Afghanistan will choose its President as the country goes to the polls on Thursday.

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  Afghanistan fears bloodshed on poll eve

  Afghanistan's 17 million voters were set to choose a president for only the second time in history with security forces on high alert.

• As campaign ends, Kabul braces for violent polls

  With two days to go for Afghanistan's second presidential election since the Taliban's ouster in 2001, the old enemy is back with a vengeance.

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  Hamid Karzai's home attacked by rockets

  A rocket struck the presidential palace in Kabul and a second hit the Afghan capital's police headquarters on Tuesday.

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  It's Karzai vs Abdullah in Afghanistan

  There are many firsts in Afghanistan's Presidential elections. TV Commercials and even a US styled live Presidential debate.