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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47070)	10/17/2004 9:03:05 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Karzai leading Afghanistan presidential vote (Updated at 1530 PST) KABUL: President Hamid Karzai maintained his early lead in Afghanistan's election after nearly five percent of the ballots had been counted, the election commission said Sunday. Karzai has polled 66.9 percent of the estimated 4.8 percent of votes counted, the commission said. Trailing in second place with 16.3 percent was former education minister Yunus Qanooni, the Joint Electoral Management Body said on its website in a statement. In third place with 7.2 percent was ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam, and ethnic Hazara military strongman Mohammed Mohaqeq was in fourth place with 2.7 percent. \In fifth place was the only woman out of the 18 presidential candidates, Massooda Jalal, who had garnered 1.1 percent of the vote. The other 13 presidential candidates all received less than 1.1 percent of the vote.