Karzai Vows Fight Against Afghan Opium Trade
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to visit Pakistan to discuss fighting terror and boosting trade.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged his Cabinet ministers to avoid political intrigue and work together for the future.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised yesterday to repatriate 400 Pakistani prisoners who fought with the former ruling Taliban regime and have been held in Afghan jails since 2001, a Pakistani official said.
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President Hamid Karzai took the helm yesterday of a country whose revival is threatened by a growing opium trade and a persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging to bring stability and prosperity to Afghanistan even as rebels made attacks near the Pakistani
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai told  British Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday he remained fully  committed to ridding Afghanistan of the menace of illicit  drugs.
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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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AFGHANISTAN&#39;S first democratically elected president was sworn in yesterday - vowing to crack down on drug traffickers and the last of the Taliban.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged his countrymen to tackle the war on drugs with the same zeal they fought the Red Army during the Soviet Union&#39;s decade-long occupation that ended in 1990.
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country along with Pakistan faces "gloom and doom" from Taliban insurgents, and called for the world to "join hands" to defeat the Islamist rebels.
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TORONTO, Sept. 22 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a forceful argument Friday for keeping Canadian troops in his country, appealing to a Canadian public wavering over growing casualties and the rise in fighting there.
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President Hamid Karzai has called on neighbouring countries to prevent militants crossing into Afghanistan through poorly monitored borders and cooperate in the "fight against terror."
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged   Canada on Friday not to be discouraged by the deaths of   Canadian soldiers in his war-torn country, saying that if the   troops leave the world would become more dangerous.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an assassination attempt last month, telling thousands of supporters that a historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the war-torn nation.
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai  promised Afghans greater security when they go to vote in the  country's first ever democratic election during an independence  day speech on Wednesday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has officially taken office, warning of the risks posed by terrorism and the illicit drug trade. Mr.
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President Hamid Karzai says Afghans are running out patience over cross-border violence from Pakistan.