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The Next Afghan President

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Afghanistan's first democratic election on October 9,2004 has been thrown into confusion after it was announced that most presidential candidates including ethnic Tajik former Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni, Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum, and Massooda Jalal, the only female candidate. were boycotting it. The move follows claims of widespread voting irregularities.

Karzai is widely favored to win, but it is not clear if he will garner the outright majority necessary to avoid a second round against the runner-up.

"A marvelous thing is happening in Afghanistan," Bush told a breakfast fund-raiser for local Republican candidates. "Freedom is powerful. Think about a society in which young girls couldn't go to school, and their mothers were whipped in the public square, and today they're holding a presidential election."

Is there any hope for the peaceful Afghanistan after the first Presidential elections ?

Whom would you like to see the next President of Afghanistan ?

Has United States played a heavy hand in Afghan's first Presidential elections ?