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20 August 2009 - 2 pm: Women have been eagerly lining up at polling centres in Bamyan to cast their vote in the presidential and provincial council elections.
KABUL - UN envoy Kai Eide has visited one of the polling stations in Kabul at the Zarghona High School in the Qala-i-Fatullah area of the city.
20 August 2009 - 12:05 am: The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan has just visited a polling station in Kabul. Kai Eide encouraged voters at the Zarghona High School.
20 August 2009 - 12:02 pm: The people of Afghanistan have begun voting in a historic Presidential election, the first ever organised by Afghan authorities.
20 August 2009 - 11:03 am: Polling is underway in all four provinces of eastern Afghanistan peacefully.
However, some polling centres couldn’t open in a few insecure districts of Nuristan province.
20 August 2009 09:43 am - Afghans, young and old, male and female are queuing up outside polling stations across the country to cast their votes.