Political leaders have mounted pressure on the IEC to postpone announcement.

Country’s election commission says nearly 7m people out of 13m eligible voters cast their vote on Apr 5.

In the votes counted so far, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah are leading the polls.

Family, friends have not been able to contact Agha Jan since the past week.

Election commission chief says preliminary results will be out on April 24.

Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani claim early victories in largely peaceful election .

All polling ends even after the deadline was extended by an hour to 5pm in some areas.

Special messages televised urging people to exercise democratic right without fear.

'Voting will bring prosperous life for our children and generations to come,' says President Hamid Karzai after...

Over 400,000 security, intelligence personnel deployed; voting begins 7:30 am.