Karzai&#39;s amnesty offer to Taliban
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All facts,challenges and problems considered, and there are many (from the security issue to the mobilization of a brand new free nations with very little if at all infrastructure and functioning civil society to ethnic, economical and political factor
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President Hamid Karzai will likely reject as unconstitutional a draft bill adopted by the lower house that gives amnesty for crimes and abuse in Afghanistan's 25 years of war, his spokesman said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to address tribal leaders Thursday on the need to eliminate this war-ravaged country&#39;s booming drug trade, an aide said.
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In a new effort to end the growing Taliban insurgency, a council of Afghan political and tribal leaders hopes to hold talks with elements of the Islamic group aimed at including them in the government.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on   Tuesday expressed skepticism about Pakistan's plan to suppress   a resurgent Taliban as he and President George W. Bush prepared   for talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
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KARACHI, Pakistan -- A veteran Afghan warlord wanted by the United States has distanced himself from the Taliban and given his strongest indication yet that he was open to talks with President Hamid Karzai.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan leaders are considering offering amnesty to drug smugglers who get out of the country's booming narcotics industry and invest their profits in national reconstruction, senior officials said.
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President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan accused of insulting Islam
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters could  abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace  talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid  Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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The Taliban said Monday it was ready for talks with the Afghan government after President Hamid Karzai offered negotiations in a bid to end the rebels&#39; nearly six-year bloody insurgency.
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Fugitive Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar told The Associated Press his forces have ended cooperation with the Taliban and suggested that he was open to talks with embattled President Hamid Karzai.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters may abandon  their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks  under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's  government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is due attend a meeting in Rome aimed at strengthening the rule of law in his country.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents said on Saturday they might join proposed tribal councils aimed at ending mounting violence in Afghanistan, if they were asked.
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OTTAWA - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan pleaded with Canada yesterday 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. Karzai made his comments to a special meeting of all Canadian reporters based in Afghanistan.
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The upper house of parliament passed a resolution Tuesday that calls for an amnesty for Afghans &#151; including some lawmakers and members of the government &#151; who are suspected of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, an official said. President Hamid Karzai will now decide whether it should become law, said Kadamali Nekpai, chief of the upper house's press department.