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Afghan coverage of the presidential race has been dominated by Karzai, while his 40 opponents complain they've received scant attention in state-run media, forcing them to campaign in person or on the Internet in a country where daily travel can be deadly and few have home computers. The Information Ministry ordered the country's 25 Internet service providers to shut down access to four Web sites bearing Karzai's name and one with the name of an Afghan Cabinet minister, the director of the Afghan Telecom Regulatory Authority said Saturday. The four sites all bear the president's full or last name, but they clearly don't have Karzai's backing. Hamidkarzai.com asks "Is Hamid Karzai anything more than a puppet?" in a blaring red headline. The site calls Karzai an "inefficient" politician and says he came into power because of his "long-standing ties with the CIA." The site is registered in Springfield, Va., according to the Web site http://www.whois.net, which publishes Internet registration records. Other banned sites with Karzai in the address show advertisements for online dating and mail order brides _ touchy subjects in conservative Afghanistan. Another links to a Chinese-language search engine. The spokesman for Karzai's election campaign, Waheed Omar, first told The Associated Press that the shutdown of the sites was "on our request." Omar said he did not think that others had the right to operate sites such as HamidKarzai.com and write negative things about the president. Omar said the campaign was launching a new Web site, http://www.hamidkarzai.af, and it didn't want Web users to be confused by unofficial sites. However, Omar later called AP back and said that he had been mistaken, and that after consulting with colleagues learned that the request had not come from the campaign office. "I can assure you it has not come from our side," Omar said. The spokesman for the Information Ministry, Hamid Nasery, said he believed the original complaint over two Web sites had originated from the Karzai campaign but said he needed to gather more information. The ministry's complaint commission, which investigates media violations, had not received any complaints about the Web sites, said Ali Ahmad Fakoor, a member of the commission. The order only applies to Afghanistan's 25 Internet Service Providers, and the sites remain available outside Afghanistan. Any Internet company that does not block the sites will be referred to the attorney general, said Zekria Hassan, the director of the Afghan Telecom Regulatory Authority. One of the sites ordered blocked is http://www.karimkhoram.com, a site registered in the name of Information Minister Abdul Karim Khoram, who has been criticized for stifling media freedoms in the past. The site, which is a mirror copy of http://www.kabulpress.org, calls on the government to free a jailed student journalist named Parwez Kambakhsh, who was convicted in 2008 of blasphemy in part for distributing an Internet article asking why Islam does not modernize to give women equal rights. His death sentence was reduced to 20 years in prison by the Supreme Court. The order comes on the heels of a July 9 report by the Independent Election Commission, which found that Karzai garners 60 percent of election coverage on state TV. Karzai's presidential opponents have complained repeatedly that Karzai has a built-in campaign advantage by being able to use state media for campaign purposes. ___ On the Net: Sites the government ordered Afghan Internet service providers to block: http://www.hamidkarzai.com http://www.hamidkarzai.net http://www.karzai.com http://www.karzai.net http://www.karimkhoram.com Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: Asia Pacific Jakarta bombings loom over Asian security meetingAFP - Sunday, July 19 China says police killed 12 people in Urumqi riotAP - Sunday, July 19 NZ quits search for 18 missing from Kiribati ferryAP - Sunday, July 19 Australian soldier killed in Afghan blastAP - Sunday, July 19 British students in Chinese swine flu quarantineAFP - Sunday, July 19 Most Popular – Asia Pacific Viewed World's oldest man, British WWI veteran dies at 113 Talking toy 'translates' dog barks Miniskirts, cleavage upset male SKoreans: survey Citi posts $4.3 bln profit on one-time gain Coroners seek records from Jackson skin doctor View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! 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