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Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who covers Afghanistan and Pakistan for The New York Times.

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Karzai’s Running Mate Poised for Political Return

KABUL, Afghanistan Once the most powerful man in Afghanistan, Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fahim sat on the political sidelines for the past five years after being accused of corruption and maintaining an armed militia when he was defense minister. Now, ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  Taliban,  United Nations,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Abdullah Abdullah

Rising Accounts of Fraud Cloud Afghan Election

PUL-I-CHARKHI, Afghanistan A Kabul teacher assigned to run a polling station in this village arrived at 6 a.m. on Election Day to find the ballot boxes already full, well before the voting was to start. When he protested, the other election officials ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  30 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  NATO

First Official Afghan Vote Results Show No Clear Leader

KABUL, Afghanistan The first preliminary results in the Afghan presidential election released Tuesday showed that President Hamid Karzai had a slender lead over his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, but not a majority, with 10 percent of the votes ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  Barack Obama

Afghan Cabinet Minister Claims Karzai Victory

Official results have yet to be released Afghanistan’s election commission plans to announce partial results on Tuesday but the minister, who is also chief economic adviser to the president, quoted figures he said had been provided to the cabinet. ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  24 Aug 2009

Intimidation and Fraud Observed in Afghan Election

KABUL, Afghanistan Turnout by female voters in Afghanistan’s presidential election on Thursday was notably low, and women were disproportionately affected by the violence and intimidation, a number of election observer organizations said ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  22 Aug 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Hamid Karzai

Afghans Vote Despite Taliban Rockets, but Turnout Uncertain

KABUL, Afghanistan Defying Taliban warnings and a flurry of rocket attacks apparently aimed at polling stations, Afghans voted Thursday in an election that has become a critical benchmark of the nation’s progress for both the Afghan government and the ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hamid Karzai,  NATO

Long Shots Run for President of Afghanistan With Ideals, or Hopes of Another Job

KABUL, Afghanistan Away from the big rallies and famous candidates, there are several dozen barely known candidates running for president of Afghanistan in Thursday’s election, among them two women, a 62-year-old mullah, a caretaker and a fortuneteller. ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  18 Aug 2009

Afghan Campaign Issue: Talking to the Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan Whether and how to negotiate peace with the Taliban has become the one issue that no candidate in the Afghan presidential election can avoid taking a stand on. There is broad agreement that the war must end, but debate swirls around ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, International Herald Tribune,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  Taliban,  Ashraf Ghani,  Barack Obama,  Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Afghanistan’s President Moves to Bolster Bid for Re-Election

KABUL, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai moved to strengthen his chances of re-election on Sunday, just four days before the voting, by appearing in a live televised debate with two of his opponents and allowing an Uzbek warlord to return to ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  Abdul Rashid Dostum,  Ashraf Ghani

Afghan Election Race Narrows

KABUL, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is still leading in the presidential race one week before the national election, but his opponents are closing the gap, and he still falls short of the 50 percent support needed to avoid a runoff, a new opinion ...

From CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times,  13 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  U.S. Republican Party,  Ashraf Ghani,  Ramazan Bashardost

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