The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday.
As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of [...]
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Af nudged by US to resolve political cris The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday. As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of Hamid Karzai’s votes from the August Presidential polls, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Afghan President will “set the stage†for resolving the political crisis by announcing his intentions on Tuesday. Clinton also hoped that the crisis in the war-torn country would be resolved soon. “He is going to announce his intentions. I am going to let him do that, but I am encouraged at the direction the situation is moving,†Clinton told reporters at the State Department after meeting with Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki. She was responding to questions about the political crisis in Afghanistan in the wake of a UN-backed panel deciding to cut Karzai’s share of the vote to 48 per cent, below the threshold for an outright win. “I am very hopeful that we will see a resolution in line with the constitutional order in the next several days,†Clinton said. “But I don’t want to pre-empt in any way President Karzai’s statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this,†she said, when asked whether Karzai has decided to accept the findings of a UN- backed fraud.is
October 20th, 2009 |
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Afghanistan’s Karzai under pressure after poll fraud found
October 20th, 2009 |
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President Hamid Karzai was Tuesday under intense pressure to end Afghanistan’s electoral chaos as Washington called for an early resolution after more than a million fraudulent votes were thrown out. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she expected Karzai, whose administration is
Afghanistan’s Karzai ‘to accept vote ruling’ to avert chaos
October 20th, 2009 |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s team said on Tuesday he would accept a ruling from election authorities after a fraud probe that could lose him over a million votes and deprive him of outright victory. The statement came with the Afghan head of state, whose popularity stakes in the West have
Not half, Mr Karzai
October 19th, 2009 |
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Officials, citing massive fraud, deny Hamid Karzai outright victory in Afghanistan’s election
HAMID KARZAI has been dealt a painful blow as the saga of Afghanistan’s torturous presidential election drags on. An independent investigation has found that nearly one in three of the votes supposedly cast for the Afghan president in August were fraudulent. The results of an audit by the country’s Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), published on Monday October 19th, put Mr Karzai’s share of the vote a couple of points below the 50% that he required to win another term without facing a run-off against his closest challenger, Abdullah Abdullah.
But the UN-backed electoral commission is not the only game in town. Mr Karzai’s supporters immediately questioned the authority of the ECC, which is dominated by Western officials. His supporters claim that the final reckoning can only be delivered by the Independent Election Commission, a body packed with people appointed by—and loyal to—the president. …
EU monitors say a third of Karzai votes are suspect
September 17th, 2009 |
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European Union monitors believe that about one-third of the votes cast for President Hamid Karzai in the Aug. 20 election are suspicious and should be examined for fraud.
In a news conference just hours before the pre-audited results were released, the European Union monitors said they believed that the tally included 1.5 million suspicious ballots, or [...]
Karzai increases lead in Afghan election
August 30th, 2009 |
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Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai’s lead increase to 46 percent in the latest batch of results released by the country’s Independent Election Commission. That is still below the more than 50 percent he will need to avoid a runoff election with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.
Karzai campaign claims victory in Afghan poll
August 21st, 2009 |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s re-election campaign is claiming a decisive victory in the country’s second-ever presidential election. Afghan election officials had been counting ballots after Thursday’s presidential and provincial elections, and official results are not expected for days.
Former Afghan FM Abdullah emerges as serious challenger to Karzai
July 24th, 2009 |
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Afghanistan’s former Foreign Minister, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, has emerged as a serious challenger to President Hamid Karzai, who is bidding for a second consecutive term in office.
According to a New York Times report, Dr. Abdullah may have started his presidential campaign late, but is drawing larger crowds than Karzai in the six provinces that he [...]