Afghans find success harder to gauge
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A familiar foreboding has set in, akin to the disintegration at the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked NATO allies and colleagues for more effort in Afghanistan, but it is too early to tell whether his lobbying will pay off.
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Afghanistan's presumed president-elect is under pressure to develop a two-party system.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's first  presidential election is just over a week away, but campaigning  and enthusiasm have been muted for an event described by  President Bush as one of his major achievements.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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KABUL -- As  an endless procession of Afghans passes through the grim Soviet-era office of Masooda Jalal, all apparently enthusiastic about electing her the next president of Afghanistan, there are strange echoes in her responses of familiar American political themes.
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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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SANGIN, Afghanistan  - The message couldn't have been clearer.
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The public feud between Hamid Karzai and Pervez Musharraf underscores the challenges that lie ahead in the American-led effort to stabilize Afghanistan.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai last night won Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote, but a suicide bombing offered a lethal reminder of the dangers still facing the war-weary nation.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s government said Tuesday that progress had been made towards freeing three
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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The killing in Afghanistan spirals onward, undermining U.S. claims of success in pacifying the country with less than a week to go before an historic experiment with democracy &#151; direct presidential elections.
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Hamid Karzai was cruising to victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential elections, but returns counted by late Wednesday underscored the ethnic fault lines that often divide the country.
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Few people would envy Hamid Karzai. The Afghan president finds himself grappling with maintaining stability in the capital while fighting grows ever bloodier in the south. He must also satisfy the conflicting demands of his countrymen and his foreign allies.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's 11 a.m., and traffic on Taru Buz Khan Street is nearly jammed in both directions, crawling past a row of computer shops with stacks of Dell boxes in the front windows.
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Afghans feeling almost as vulnerable as they did during 1990s civil war amid increased violence.