Karzai faces drug challenge at outset of fresh presidential term
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KABUL, Afghanistan _ Afghanistan&#39;s newly inaugurated President Hamid Karzai is pushing the fight to control the nation&#39;s booming drug trade to the top of his to-do list.
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Threatened by the Taliban, surrounded by security forces and watched by the second tier of the Bush administration, Hamid Karzai is due to be inaugurated as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president this morning.
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Hamid Karzai will be sworn in as his  country's first elected president Tuesday, facing a huge amount  of more work to rebuild a land still traumatized by more than a  quarter century of war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s capital is under tight security for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two days after being sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, Hamid Karzai called on his countrymen yesterday to wage holy war against the booming Afghan opium trade, which he described as a worse &quot;cancer&quot; than terrorism or the Soviet invasion of 1979.
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KABUL In his inaugural address last week, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan laid out his priorities for the next five years. Chief among them was stopping the country&#39;s growing drug trade.
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Abstract: Karzai completed one of his most important tasks as the head of state of a new Afghanistan by forming his cabinet. But the formation of the cabinet is only a first step in the countryâs political future.
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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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Two days after being sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, Hamid Karzai called on his countrymen Thursday to wage holy war against the booming Afghan opium trade, which he described as a worse "cancer" than terrorism or the Soviet invasion of 1979.
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Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election officially began today. Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai and his 17 opponents have 30 days to try to win support from more than 10 million registered voters.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai chose a new cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions and creating a new post to spearhead the fight against opium production.
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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly elected president, Hamid Karzai, has warned that the country must face down radical extremists and defeat the drug trade.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Weekend counting shows interim President Hamid Karzai is well ahead of his rivals and on course to become Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected leader.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai hit the election trail on Tuesday for the first time  since an assassination attempt last month, telling supporters a  historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the  war-torn nation.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 4 -- In his first public comments since handily winning Afghanistan's first democratic election, President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to assemble a "representative" government. But he said he did not feel bound to offer top cabinet positions to his defeated rivals, and he vowed that drug dealers and militia commanders would have no part in the new Afghanistan.
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly-elected president, Hamid Karzai, has identified two issues - warlordism and Afghanistan&#39;s booming drugs trade - as targets for change.