Completed Vote Count Confirms Karzai's Win ; First Presidential Election Gives Interim Leader 55.5%

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › October 27, 2004

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KABUL, Afghanistan - More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up Tuesday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.

With his inauguration to a five-year term a month away, the U.S.- backed Karzai already is under pressure to ditch his coalition with powerful warlords and tackle a booming narcotics industry that has become a major economic force in one of the world's poorest nations.

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Completed Vote Count Confirms Karzai's Win ; First Presidential Election Gives Interim Leader 55.5%

Officials declared the vote count complete Tuesday afternoon, giving...

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