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KABUL (CP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai took the helm Tuesday of a country whose revival is threatened by a surging drug trade and a stubbornly persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging in his inaugural address to bring stability and prosperity, even as
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai has steered Afghanistan from the ruins of war to its first elected presidency, using skills honed from plotting to end Soviet occupation and negotiating the minefield of volatile Afghan politics.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 7, 2004 - Afghanistan&#39;s historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in today as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president. In a solemn ceremony at the restored royal palace in Kabul, with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in attendance, Hamid
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Hamid Karzai will seek to rebuild Afghanistan after his inauguration as the devastated country's first freely elected president by tackling the twin scourge of drugs and warlords, his spokesman said.
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KABUL - President Hamid Karzai faces a big hurdle in getting his reform-minded cabinet approved by a parliament likely to be filled with figures from Afghanistanâs war and drugs tainted past, analysts said on Friday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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Early results Friday showed interim leader Hamid Karzai far ahead of his chief rivals in Afghanistan&#39;s first democratic presidential election after a quarter-century of war.
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A ring of steel was placed around the Afghan capital on Tuesday as Hamid Karzai prepared to be sworn in as the country&#39;s first popularly elected President at a ceremony
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in today as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, three years after American-backed resistance fighters swept the Taliban government from power.
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What a difference the ballot makes. The election of Hamid Karzai as the first popularly elected president of Afghanistan is a dramatic affirmation of the power of democracy.
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president amid tight security. There had been fears that supporters of the previous Taliban ruling regime would attempt to sabotage the ceremony in Kabul.
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[World News]: Kabul, Oct 23 : Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was leading opponents by a huge margin after officials finished counting nearly three-fourths of the votes polled in the country&#39;s first presidential elections.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy.    After 25 years of near constant war - and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence - voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques, and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time in their history...
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in Tuesday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, opening a new chapter for the impoverished country, which became a haven for international
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Afghanistan's presumed president-elect is under pressure to develop a two-party system.