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Karzai casts vote in Afghanistan poll

Kabul : Afghanistan | 3 months ago

Amid tight security and militant threats to disrupt polls, the presidential and provincial elections began nationwide Thursday with around 17 million Afghans eligible to vote. President Hamid Karzai cast his vote at a polling station near the presidential palace early in the day.

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