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Musharraf Is Disqualified From Pakistani Elections

A Pakistani court disqualified the country’s one-time military leader and president Pervez Musharraf from taking part in coming national elections on Tuesday, dashing his hopes of rejoining Pakistani politics.

 

Fearful Syrian voters will keep Assad in power: Qassem

President Bashar al-Assad is likely to run for re-election next year and win, with Syria remaining in military and political deadlock until then, said the deputy leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.

 

Afghanistan presidential election set for April 2014

Afghanistan will hold its next presidential election on April 5, 2014, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. President Hamid Karzai, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, had denied speculation that security problems and the exit of foreign troops that year would delay the poll.

 

Netanyahu's power play pays off

Having created one surprise in pushing for an early general election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now delivered an even greater bomb-shell. The plan for early elections has been abandoned. Instead a new broadly-based governing coalition has been called into existence with the opposition centre-right Kadima party of Shaul Mofaz joining the government.

 

Syria holds elections as violence rages

Syrians voted in a parliamentary election on Monday touted by authorities as a milestone of political reform but dismissed by the opposition as a facade while people are killed every day in an anti-government uprising.

 

Karzai considers holding Afghan election earlier than 2014

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said he was considering bringing forward by a year the presidential election set for 2014 to reduce the pressure on the conflict-plagued country during the period when majority of NATO coalition troops are scheduled to withdraw.

 

Iranians vote for first time since 2009

Iran Elections

Iranians head to the polls Friday in a parliamentary election marking the first nationwide balloting since a disputed vote triggered massive protests nearly three years ago.

 

Saudi women given right to vote

Saudi Arabia will allow women to stand for election and vote, the king announced on Sunday, in a significant policy shift in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

 

Afghanistan releases 'final' election results

Results for Ghazni province are withheld because a fair tally is considered impossible. Protests break out over the disqualification of some candidates. Afghanistan's main electoral body on Wednesday released what were billed as the final results of September's trouble-plagued parliamentary election.

 

Afghanistan rescinds thousands of votes amid election fraud probe

Ballots from 10% of the nation's voting centers have been nullified as widespread complaints of vote irregularities are investigated.

 

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