Karzai names warlords to 2 governorships
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KABUL President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan appointed two warlords and former cabinet members to influential governorships in an effort to keep the strongmen happy - but outside of his central government.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai's sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked U.N. compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including three U.S...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called a two-day meeting of tribal elders and provincial officials to discuss strategies to combat the country&#39;s burgeoning drug trade.
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President Hamid Karzai has chosen a new Cabinet, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions -- including the defense minister -- and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production, government officials said Thursday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai sidelined  leaders of powerful regional factions in his new cabinet  line-up announced Thursday, bringing in specialists needed to  win the confidence of Western donors and investors.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai's sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked U.N. compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including several U.S...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai names his new cabinet, removing the defence minister, veteran warlord Mohammed Fahim.
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The runner-up to Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential elections has congratulated the Afghan leader on the formation of his Cabinet and said he is in the process of forming an opposition political party.
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In July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ditched his vice-president, Marshal Mohammad Fahim, one of the countryâs most powerful warlords.
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ISLAMABAD : Pakistan and Afghanistan have reaffirmed they are partners in fighting terrorism, Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared at the end of a two-day visit.
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Karzai. One was not considered to have a wide following but the other, Sayed Ishaq Gailani, is from one of the. vote he needs to avoid a November runoff.
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A fervent desire among Afghans who have just chosen their first president is to end the rule of warlords, but analysts say a future leader would find it difficult to grant his constituents' wish to rule without them.
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Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has effectively tried to sideline a powerful regional rival by promoting him to cabinet minister less than a month before presidential elections on Oct. 9. Ismail
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Hamid Karzai named a new cabinet on Thursday, sacking the country&#39;s prominent defence minister and removing other warlords from top spots in a major reshuffle weeks after he was sworn in as the nation&#39;s first democratically elected president.
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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.
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Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai&#39;s sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked UN compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including several US troops
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President Hamid Karzai chose a new Cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions - including the defense minister - and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production.