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Posted: December 30, 2009 at 5:15 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We seriously emphasize that the election should be on time as required by the constitution.” Waheed Omar, the spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, brushing off calls for Afghanistan to delay its parliamentary elections Article, this page

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