Karzai pleads with Canada: Don't pull out troops
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai pleaded with Canada on Tuesday not to withdraw its 2,500 troops when their mission ends in early 2009, saying to do so would only help deliver his country back to the Taliban, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who most Western governments want to see win an election on Oct. 9, said today that foreign troops would remain until the country&#39;s own fledgling forces can take the charge of stability.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, under  fire at home for a troop commitment to Afghanistan that has  cost 70 lives, said on Tuesday he would not abandon the  country.
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(World News) Islamabad, Aug 24 : Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday urged neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, not to allow terrorists to carry out their activities in Afghanistan.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf   bluntly told Canadians on Tuesday to stop complaining about the   number of soldiers they were losing in Afghanistan, saying   Canada's death toll was far less than Pakistan's.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai  on Tuesday dismissed a call he resign as unconstitutional, but  said it was the right of a group of challengers who made the  demand to withdraw from the Oct. 9 presidential election.
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NATO on Wednesday urged Canada not to pull its troops from Afghanistan's dangerous Kandahar region and pledged to help find the 1,000 additional allied troops Ottawa is demanding.
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The international effort against   Taliban militants in Afghanistan faces major long-term problems   and cannot succeed by military means alone, an unusually   downbeat Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on   Thursday.
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SANGSAR, Afghanistan  - Canadian troops drove Taliban insurgents into an Afghan army ambush on Saturday and then called in air strikes to hit the fleeing militants, killing at least 15, the Canadian army commander said.
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Nato's secretary general calls on Canada to keep soldiers in Afghanistan beyond the current 2009 deadline.
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From Tuesday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA AND TIRIN KOT, AFGHANISTAN - Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes recruiting today, hoping to convince combat-shy Europeans to reinforce Canada's embattled troops doing much ...Comment
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting Canada to seek continued financial and military aid.
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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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The Afghan government is ready for peace talks with the Taliban, but will not accept preconditions demanded by the Islamist rebels such as the withdrawal of all foreign troops, the presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.
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23 August 2004 -- President Pervez Musharraf promised visiting Afghan leader Hamid Karzai today that Pakistan will not allow Islamic militants to use Pakistani soil to disrupt Afghanistan&#39;s presidential elections this fall.
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New prime minister, Gordon Brown, called President Hamid Karzai overnight to reiterate his country&#39;s commitment to the fight against &quot;terror&quot; in Afghanistan, a statement said Saturday.
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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.