News Source: Kuwait Times
| 23 days ago
November 01, 2009 With violence escalating ahead of Afghanistan's presidential election run-off, incumbent Hamid Karzai is probably the best hope both Afghans and the United States have of keeping the country stable in fragile times.
News Source: Russia Today
| 23 days ago
According to Murad, the candidate’s decision comes as a response to Karzai’s refusal to remove top election officials allegedly responsible for the widespread fraud in the first-round of voting in August.
News Source: Reuters
| 23 days ago
Abdullah Abdullah, the chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has decided to withdraw from a November 7 runoff election, the New York Times reported on Saturday. In a dispatch from Kabul posted on its website, the newspaper quoted...
News Source: Fox News
| 23 days ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's challenger plans to call for a boycott of next Saturday's runoff election in hopes of forcing a postponement of the vote until the spring. That's the word from Abdullah Abdullah's campaign manager Satar Murad. Murad...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 23 days ago
Security, not candidates, will determine whether voters in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous districts risk going to the ballot box for next week's disputed presidential run-off vote. The first round in August was marred by fraud and the run-off...
News Source: Press TV
| 23 days ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would not consider the attempt 'illegitimate,' Politico reported. Karzai claimed 54 percent of the vote in August presidential polls, which was later denounced as rigged. After about one million of...