Security No. 1 for Afghan head
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President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to assemble a ârepresentativeâ government, but said he did not feel bound to offer top Cabinet positions to his defeated rivals.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in yesterday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, watched by an audience that included America&#39;s vice-president and defence secretary.
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ISLAMABAD Dec 05 : The Interior Minister, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao will lead a delegation to represent Pakistan at the swearing in ceremony of Hamid Karzai as the first elected President of Afghanistan in nearly 30 years.
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Hamid Karzai on Tuesday vowed to fight drugs and terrorism and work hard to lead his country forward as he was sworn in as Afghanistanâs first directly-elected president.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai appeared set to become Afghanistan&#39;s first directly elected leader after preliminary results Sunday showed he had won a majority in landmark presidential elections.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 14 -- Afghan forces have captured two top figures of the deposed Taliban government, including the personal security chief of leader Mohammad Omar, provincial officials said Tuesday.
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Hamid Karzai is on course to retain the presidency in Afghanistan with more than half the votes counted in the country&#39;s first poll.
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SHAHBET, Afghanistan  - Plans for Afghanistan's  first democratic election in October mean little to Ismail Khan  as he strides across a hill top, satellite phone in hand,  flanked by commanders and a battle tank at his back.
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AFGHANISTANâS capital Kabul was placed under tight security today for the historic inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the countryâs first popularly elected president.
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With a low-profile, tightly secured arrival at Bagram Air Base, Vice President Dick Cheney became the highest-ranking United States official to visit Kabul since the Taliban&#39;s overthrow.
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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's first popularly elected President at a  ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for  easing him into power.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as  Afghanistan's first popularly elected president on Tuesday at a  ceremony attended by two of the men most responsible for easing  him into power.
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Vice President Dick Cheney will attend the first Afghan presidential inauguration in Kabul, one month before his own re-investiture.
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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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A German soldier, right, of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and an Afghan security police stand guard below a poster of President Hamid Karzai in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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Afghan security forces have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief as he traveled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar, provincial officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Elaborate security plans have been laid out across Afghanistan to ensure the success of the country&#39;s first presidential election scheduled to take place Saturday, US officials said yesterday.