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KABUL, OCT. 15. Early results put Afghanistan's interim President, Hamid Karzai, far ahead of his chief rivals in the landmark presidential election today, as the vote count was suspended for a day for the beginning of Ramzan. Of 35,986 valid votes counted in six northern and central provinces, Mr. Karzai won 20,213, or 56.2 per cent of the total, according to the official election Web site. The Former Education Minister, Yunus Qanooni, who was expected to be Mr. Karzai's closest challenger, was running at 17.2 per cent, ahead of the ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum with 15 per cent. The tally represented only a tiny fraction of the estimated 8 million votes cast. Counting only began yesterday after five days of delays while a panel of foreign experts probed allegations of electoral fraud. Mr. Karzai, who has led Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban regime by U.S.-led forces in 2001, is expected to win the vote and become first popularly chosen president. AP
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