News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 month ago
Afghanistan said overnight they would cast aside dismay over the fraud that marred their presidential election to participate in a second round run-off. Afghans will go to the polls on November 7 to vote in a run-off between the two top contenders...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 month ago
Dr Abdullah Abdullah says the run-off will 'help democracy' in Afghanistan Just when Afghans thought one presidential election was finally ending, another one is just starting. They may be forgiven for wondering why the West keeps telling them...
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Zekria Rashid said he struggles to find hope when he ponders the future of Afghanistan, the country he fled in 1981. Images More News The problems run so deep, he said Tuesday while sitting in his Fremont restaurant, that he can't envision them...
News Source: The Nation
| about 1 month ago
Don't expect any miracles after President Karzai's decision to accept a second round in the much-disputed Afghan elections. (The latest totals give Karzai 49.7 percent of the vote from the August election, just under the 50 percent needed to avoid a...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
This reduced Karzai's share of the final certified result to 49.62 per cent, below the 50 per cent necessary to avoid a presidential poll run-off with Abdullah. Abdullah said that authorities needed to hold a "free, fair and credible election" and...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Americans are evenly and deeply divided over whether President Barack Obama should send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and public support for his handling of the war has taken a fall, according to a Washington Post-ABC News public opinion poll...