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| | Human Rights Watch - Afghan Election Blog, September 2005 |
 | | Afghanistan on the Eve of Parliamentary and Provincial Elections | | | On September 18, 2005, Afghanistan held elections to choose a national assembly and local councils for the country’s 34 provinces. | | | Human Rights Watch conducted research throughout the country in the lead-up to the elections, focusing on candidate and voter perceptions about political rights, women’s involvement in the election, and issues of freedom of expression. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Afghan elections put back to September |
| | Afghanistan's elections were postponed to September yesterday, owing to insecurity and the UN's slow pace in registering voters. | | | With still no electoral law, to delimit constituencies, and still no registered parties, UN staff are sceptical that a parliamentary election can be held this year. | | | The postponement comes despite Washington's insistence to President Hamid Karzai that the vote be in June. |
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| | AlterNet: Landmark Elections in Afghanistan |
| | Afghanistan held its landmark legislative elections this Sunday. | | | The United States invaded in 1994 and oversaw reconstruction and elections in 1995 and 2000, as international forces slowly withdrew. | | | He served as legal advisor to Afghanistan's Constitutional and Judicial Reform Commissions. |
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| | Afghanistan [microform] law enforcement interdiction efforts in transshipment countries to stem the flow of heroin : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, February 26, 2004. | | | United States security policy in Afghanistan on the eve of national elections [microform] hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, September 23, 2004. | | | Hong Kong after the elections : the future of "one country, two systems" : hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, September 23, 2004. |
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| | Elections in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. | | | It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials. | | | Summary of the 9 October 2004 Presidential election results |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Afghanistan
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| | ABC News: Afghanistan to Hold Elections in Sept. |
| | Afghanistan adopted a new constitution in January last year and elected Karzai president in the October ballot. | | | Afghanistan Officials Say Much-Delayed Parliamentary Elections Will Be Held on September 18 | | | The much-delayed vote will select provincial councils as well as the lower house of parliament. |
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| | Assisting Afghanistan After the Elections |
| | The surviving leaders of the ousted Taliban regime opposed the elections and killed six of the almost 6,000 candidates running for seats in the lower house of parliament and 34 provincial councils. | | | The recent resignation of Interior Minister Ali Jalali, reportedly due to his dissatisfaction over the involvement of some government officials in the drug trade, is a warning sign that narco-corruption is a growing threat. | | | Local criminal gangs, drug traffickers, and regional warlords remain a threat to the rule of law. |
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| | Afghanistan election foes backing off - The Washington Times: World - October 11, 2004 |
| | Thirteen of the 15 candidates opposing President Hamid Karzai had announced a boycott of the election on Saturday after the discovery that the supposedly indelible ink used to mark the thumbs of voters could be washed off easily. | | | The willingness of Afghans to assist the security forces went hand in hand with enthusiasm for the election, putting pressure on the 13 dissenting candidates to consider backing away from their boycott. | | | However, the reversal appeared to be influenced, at least in part, by popular support for Saturday's groundbreaking election, in which millions of first-time voters defied threats of violence to cast ballots. |
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| | CNN.com - Candidates want new Afghan presidential election - Oct 9, 2004 |
| | Ahmadzai said 14 opposition candidates were united in demanding a new election and insisted that they would not recognize or respect Saturday's voting. | | | Officials agreed to investigate the accusations of voter fraud. | | | "The JEMB wishes to reassure voters, candidates and observers that procedures exist to receive, investigate and decide on complaints," said election official Ray Kennedy. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/afghanistan.elections
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| | Daily Times - Site Edition |
| | The Afghan president Mr Hamid Karzai has announced that the elections in his country scheduled for June would now be held in September. | | | This means that the North will learn to live by defying the writ of the supreme court. | | | In Iraq the new constitution says elections would be held January next. |
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| | Watch - 'Finally the day has arrived' |
| | I can't belive today is the election," she said adding that the men in her family were also voting for Karzai. | | | However, voters were overwhelmingly enthusiastic, calling polling day the happiest day of their lives and saying that they hoped it would usher in big changes. | | | Across Afghanistan voters went to the polls in the countrys first-ever direct presidential elections." |
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| | Afghanistan's Elections |
| | RAY SUAREZ: Now set for Oct. 9, the elections are part of a long-term plan approved by Afghan leaders right after the 2001 war that ousted the Taliban. | | | We should have had the constitutional Loya Jirga convention and then the presidential convention was supposed to take place in June of this year but has been postponed twice and now Oct. 9. | | | He's favored by the United States, by the international community, and he's very likely to win the election. |
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http://www.iub.edu/~afghan/afghan_elections.dwt
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| | Home / Headlines / Afghanistan's Presidential Elections - Media Monitors Network (MMN) |
| | It is a requirement of this gradual process that Karzai goes through the presidential elections to legitimize himself as an elected Afghan leader and not one propped up entirely by the Americans. | | | This too could be reason to worry about the ‘fairness’ of the election. | | | These range from the use of state resources for Karzai’s campaigning, the forcible removal of Karzai’s key opponent Ismail Khan as Governor of Herat and the double registration of voters from known pro-Karzai constituencies. |
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| | Afghanistan’s National Elections |
| | The United States welcomes the decision of the UN-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) to schedule Afghanistan’s presidential elections in October and parliamentary elections in Spring 2005. | | | These elections will represent another major milestone in Afghanistan’s transition to a constitutional, representative government. | | | This site is managed by the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. |
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| | Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections delayed - |
| | Karzai then announced the delay, saying that the elections would be held in September. | | | Rice is expected to meet with Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and leading U.S. diplomats and military officials. | | | “I want to thank President Karzai for his extraordinary leadership of his country through difficult times and now to times that seem to point to a much brighter future for Afghanistan.” |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Afghanistan's Elections Must be Postponed - Leading Expert |
| | He went on to assert that a large number of Afghans in the country’s governmental and civil society sectors opposed holding elections in June. | | | "The burning question now is, can elections be held in June?" Rashid asked. | | | At the same time, he recounted a conversation with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who expressed concern that "defying the June mandate [specified in the Bonn accord] would render his government illegitimate." |
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| | BBC NEWS South Asia Karzai announces election delay |
| | He said he had been informed of the decision by the head of Afghanistan's election commission. | | | Afghan President Hamid Karzai has announced that parliamentary elections will be delayed as Condoleezza Rice made her first visit to the country. | | | Ms Rice held a joint press conference with Mr Karzai, the leader Washington chose to run the country's transitional government after the US helped Afghan forces oust the Taleban in 2001. |
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| | Jim Ingalls and Sonali Kolhatkar: Afghan Elections, a Test for Bush, Not Aghans |
| | This election process was imposed by the United States to solve "Afghan problems" as defined by the United States. | | | Alexander Thier, a former legal adviser to Afghanistan's Constitutional and Judicial Reform Commissions, is one of the few commentators who dares to utter the simple fact: "Elections themselves are only a small part of democracy." In Thier's opinion, "Effective government service, protection of individual rights, accountability - these are the true fruits of democracy. | | | Latif Pedram, a candidate who went slightly further than others by suggesting that polygamy was unfair to women, was barred from the election and investigated by the Justice Ministry for "blasphemy". |
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| | ipedia.com: Politics of Afghanistan Article |
| | Parliamentary elections are to be held separately in April or May 2005. | | | On July 9, 2004 the chief election commissioner announced that presidential elections will be held on October 9. | | | Under the Bonn Agreement the Afghan Constitution Commission was established to draft a new constitution in consultation with the public. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Long delayed parliamentary elections set in Afghanistan |
| | Afghanistan adopted a new constitution in January last year and elected Karzai president in the October ballot. | | | The much-delayed vote will select provincial councils as well as the lower house of parliament. | | | After consulting the government and political parties, "we came to the decision to hold the polling on Sept. 18," the election commission said in a statement. |
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| | Afghanistan to Hold Elections in Sept. (phillyBurbs.com) Asia |
| | Afghanistan adopted a new constitution in January last year and elected Karzai president in the October ballot. | | | The much-delayed vote will select provincial councils as well as the lower house of parliament. | | | Afghanistan to Hold Elections in Sept. (phillyBurbs.com) |
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| | Elections in Afghanistan |
| | The country had its first-ever election for a head of state. | | | This election is the latest milestone on the Afghan people's road to democratic government and vibrant civil society. | | | In these elections, millions of Afghans voted to select their next president through secret ballot across their country, and in Iran and Pakistan. |
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| | The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Women and elections in Afghanistan |
| | Bush has frequently used his policy in Afghanistan as evidence of his commitment to women's rights, and as an attempt to woo women voters. | | | He stated that the first person to vote in the election was a 19-year-old woman, and commented that she was "voting in this election because the United States of America believes that freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world." | | | The United States President, George W. Bush, also hit upon this as proof of the success of the American presence in Afghanistan. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Afghan election delay is new blow for Bush campaign |
| | It is now impossible for the election to be held legally in September, the date for which both the interim government of President Hamid Karzai and the United Nations were aiming, itself a delay from the intended June polling day. | | | The Taliban's rocket man adopts a gentler image to woo voters | | | The elections in Afghanistan seem certain to be delayed for a second time, dealing a damaging blow to President George Bush's own election campaign. |
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| | Election Week in Afghanistan - One of the most important figures in Afghanistan's presidential election died three ... |
| | This summer, in an unexpected move, Karzai dropped Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim, one of the country's most powerful warlords, from his election ticket. | | | "The appointment of his brother as the vice presidential candidate was a clear strategy partly to divide and rule, to show that it's not only Qanooni who has the support of the Panjshiris or who inherits the mantle of Massoud," said Andrew Wilder, head of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, a think tank. | | | Nathan Hodge traveled to Afghanistan on a reporting fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the United States. |
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| | Afgha.com - Are elections feasible in Afghanistan? |
| | If present trends are permitted to persist, many experts in Afghanistan doubt that successful, fair, free, and universal elections can be held in June 2004. | | | A draft constitution has not yet been made public and the time allotted for its dissemination, discussion, and adoption by a | | | The culmination of this process was to be a national election by June 2004. |
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| | Newsroom: Afghanistan Special Report |
| | Eager voters wait in line to participate in Afghanistan's first free elections since Taliban rule. | | | Any drug control policy must focus on law enforcement — and on providing alternative livelihoods to poor farmers who grow opium in order to survive. | | | Read CARE's latest paper on the 2005 Elections |
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| | Elections in Afghanistan |
| | The Election Law includes strict regulations to ensure female representation in the Parliament. | | | However, practical reasons and lacking political decisions on drawing up provincial borders and deciding on provincial and district representation let to a postponement of the Parliament election. | | | Human Rights Abuses and Political Repression in the Run-up to Afghanistan’s Presidential Election |
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| | DefendAmerica News - Afghans Lead the Way to Electio |
| | Gleichenhaus is confident that the elections will go relatively smoothly. | | | “We are extremely optimistic for a successful election.” | | | Afghanistan is ready for the 10.5 million registered voters to participate in their country's first ever direct presidential election Oct. 9, according to officials with the Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body. |
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| | Human Rights Watch - Elections - Afghanistan |
| | She was barred from speaking at an Afghan New Year celebration at the central shrine in Mazar-e Sharif, the Rowza Hazrat Ali, although government officials and other potential political candidates spoke, including Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim and General Rashid Dostum. | | | In many ways, parliamentary and local elections planned for 2005 will be a better barometer of political progress and women’s rights than the presidential election. | | | Voter Registration and the October 9 Presidential Elections |
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| | The new German parliament elects a speaker in its first meeting since September's dramatic election. | | | EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has defended his stance on trade talks in the face of French criticism. |
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| | Technical difficulties might delay parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, foreign minister says |
| | The head of the Afghan Election Commission, Bismillah Bismil, said from Kabul that no decision had been taken on whether to delay the vote. | | | They got behind the presidential elections, and they are even more enthusiastically behind the parliamentary elections." | | | Foreign Minister Abdullah said the technical challenges of organizing the vote are to blame for the possible delay, but that his people will understand and get behind the election. |
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| | India hails elections in Afghanistan |
| | India hailed elections in Afghanistan as a "historic milestone" in its journey towards peace, stability and prosperity and said New Delhi was looking forward to strengthening traditional ties with it, which shall be stronger after the elections. | | | "We welcome the Presidential elections held in Afghanistan. | | | He noted that the people of Afghanistan had defied the threat of terrorism and come out in majority to exercise their right to vote. |
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| | To put that in perspective, voter turnout in the last Canadian federal election - in which no one, presumably, tried to kill you for casting a ballot - was 60.5%. | | | On October 5 2005 the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill introduced by Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) directing the Department of Defense to reimburse soldiers who purchase essential military equipment while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. | | | Anyone supporting the insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan or any country where Australian troops are deployed could face a penalty of 7 years' jail under the new terrorism laws. |
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| | Take the Guns Away: Afghan Voices on Security and Elections |
| | Although 75% of Afghans we asked feel they will be free to choose who to vote for in the elections, in Kandahar and Jalalabad this number fell to less than half. | | | Afghans are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about the upcoming elections, but have serious concerns that gunmen may interfere with the process. | | | Free and fair elections: “the right conditions should be created for elections so that the people who want to pressure others will not be allowed to.” |
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http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/featurestories/2004/sep/09302004_afghanguns_report.asp
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| | USAID Afghanistan: Implementing Elections |
| | International Election Observation: TAF fielded international observers from the Asian Network for Free and Fair Elections (ANFREL) throughout most provinces in Afghanistan. | | | Technical Support: Staff is seconded to the Election Media Commission as well as the election administration bodies. | | | From the period of 2003 until the present, TAF provided critical resources and support to the Loya Jirga (2003), the Constitutional Loya Jirga (2004) and the recent Presidential elections (2004). |
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| | DefenseLINK News: Peaceful Afghan Elections a 'Milestone' for Country |
| | He said the success of the election is a testament to the will and perseverance of the individual Afghan citizen. | | | United Nations officials estimate that about 8 million Afghans voted in the election. | | | "This election confirmed that a peaceful political process based on democracy and freedom will always trump terrorist threats and intimidation." |
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| | Afghanistan's off-again, on-again, partial elections csmonitor.com |
| | The president of the Joint Electoral Management Board, Zakim Shah, says that outside pressures did exist, "but I did not accept any of it, this was a decision of the Board. | | | Shah says the country's electoral law requires political parties and presidential candidates to register 75 days before election day. | | | Announcing the election on July 9 gave political parties 17 daysto register their candidates by showing that the candidate has 10,000 supporters. |
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| | Alarming News: Elections in Afghanistan |
| | The elections went well though you'd never know it from the media. | | | 25 million people are allowed to vote in the only national election in Afghanistan in the last 5000 years and all you can say is: | | | I tried last night to find a positive link to a new story about the Afghan election today. |
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| | Spirit of America |
| | Army Captain Frederick Jackson reports that the first medical books have arrived at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. | | | Put more simply: we do our work so that freedom prevails. Our projects in Iraq and Afghanistan are our way of supporting those struggling for freedom and our way of fighting back against those who want freedom to fail. | | | Our job here at Spirit of America is to reflect and help perpetuate those ideals. |
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| | Wolesi Jirga&Provincial Council Elections 2005 Afghanistan |
| | Copyright © 2005 - Wolesi Jirga & Provincial Council Elections - Joint Electoral Management Body | | | To view JEMB Partial, Provisional, and Certified Results from the Wolesi Jirga & Provincial Council Elections, please click here. | | | To See Election Day & Election Related Photos, Please click here. |
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| | The Connection.org : Elections in Afghanistan |
| | Afghan men show their voter registration cards (AP) | | | This weekend, the Afghan people will vote in their first-ever national election. | | | Some observers caution this election is being held too soon, and that there aren't enough safeguards in place to make it free and fair. |
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| | The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (in Farsi: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان, PDPA) was a Marxist-Leninist party founded in January 1, 1965. | | | Unfortunately, the American Carter government was not delighted with the coup and, by August 1979, prompted by National Security Chief Zbigniew Brzezinski, had begun funding mujaheddin forces with the intention of destabilising the government and provoking the Soviet Union into military intervention, which occurred on December 24th 1979. | | | According to the New York Times, "nearly every Afghan interviewed said [they were] delighted with the coup." The reform program of the party comprised |
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| | news - CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Elections in Afghanistan |
| | The elections are further evidence of Afghanistan’s continuing democratic development. | | | Last October, in the face of threats and attacks by extremist militants, they voted in the country’s first-ever presidential election. | | | The results of these elections will lead to the seating of Afghanistan’s National Assembly, the final step in the process begun four years ago with the assistance of the international community to create the democratic intuitions of a sovereign Afghanistan. |
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| | Elections in Afghanistan and Beyond |
| | Afghanistan in Berlin in March this year that: “In the | | | This means addressing the causes of insecurity – warlordism, narco-mafia activity, the absence of the rule of law, and the current lack of a credible national police force and army. | | | The Irish government has underlined this commitment to the reconstruction process in Afghanistan with the pledge of €5 million in aid to the country over the next two years. |
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| | WIStv.com Columbia, SC: Bush hails free elections in Afghanistan |
| | He told a Republican fund-raising breakfast that the first person to vote was a 19-year-old woman who had left Afghanistan during its civil war. | | | Bush says the elections wouldn't have been possible without the US-led invasion that his administration launched after the September 11th attacks. | | | Bush made no reference to the allegations of fraud surrounding Saturday's election. |
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| | ZNet Afghanistan Afghanistanâs Florida-style Elections |
| | The elections are a cynical way of restoring Washingtonâs client, Karzai, to power and hoodwinking the American public into believing that Bush is a man of his word. | | | The questions surrounding the Afghanistan election have gotten scant coverage in the American media. | | | Voter registration is another issue that has cast doubt on the legitimacy of the elections. |
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| | The American Errorist: Elections in Afghanistan |
| | The provisional election results are due on October 3. | | | Furthermore, even successful elections do not necessarily result in smooth governance (as one can see in Iraq also). | | | Analysts are predicting mayhem in the early months of parliament, particularly because of the lack of political parties. |
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