Afghanistan timeline October 2004 - Definition and Overview

Timeline of Afghan history

October 9, 2004

• In Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, Hamid Karzai was elected President of Afghanistan.

October 8, 2004

• In London, England, the trial began for former Afghan warlord Zardad Khan.

October 7, 2004

• In Moscow, Russia, Russia and France signed an agreement on military transits to Afghanistan via Russia. Signing for Russia was Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and for France, Jean Cadet, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia.

October 6, 2004

• In Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, an assassination attempt on vice-presidential candidate Ahmed Zia Massood killed one person and injured five others, including the former provincial governor.

October 5, 2004

• Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai flew to Ghazni to speak to a crowd of about 5,000. While airborne, his helicopter was escorted by a U.S. AH-64 Apache and an A-10 Thunderbolt II.
• Yunus Qanuni held a presidential campaign rally before 2,000 people at a Kabul football stadium.
• In Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Rashid Dostum held a presidential campaign rally.
• In Kandahar province, Afghanistan, seven policemen were killed when their vehicle drove over a landmine.

October 3, 2004

• Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai visited Germany, where he met Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and accepted a prize from the private organization Werkstatt Deutschland.
• Three members of a Japanese election monitoring team arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan.

October 2, 2004

• Afghan presidential candidate Yunus Qanuni held a rally in Kandahar.
• Karim Khalili, the running-mate of Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai, held a rally at the Herat airport.
• In Policharki district, Afghanistan, local intelligence agents backed by ISAF peacekeepers arrested 25 people allegedly linked to the Taliban.
• Rebels killed two guards at the home of a former senior official in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.

October 1, 2004

• In Pakistan, hundreds of Afghan refugees, including women, lined up at special voting registration centers near Quetta and Peshawar.
• Former Afghan Education Minister Yunus Qanooni held a rally in Herat that drew several hundred people.
• Near the city of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, Afghan National Army authorities arrested 60 rebels who were planning to derail the upcoming presidential election.