Karzai pondering journo death sentence
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President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan, but he will not intervene until the courts have their final say, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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The U.N. chief, the Afghan president and other top officials gather in Rome this week to discuss how to strengthen Afghanistan's frail justice system amid the country's violence.
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Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, says presidential elections on Saturday will decide the fate of the war-shattered country for centuries.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai began a visit to neighboring Pakistan on Monday to discuss cooperation in the battle against Islamic militants ahead of his October re-election bid.
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai says he hopes the country&#39;s first direct presidential election on October 9 will be decided in the first round.
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KABUL, Oct 25  - Afghans were in limbo Monday as they awaited the formal announcement of what everyone already knows: Hamid Karzai will be their first elected president for the next five years.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai began a  visit to neighboring Pakistan on Monday to discuss cooperation  in the battle against Islamic militants ahead of his October  re-election bid.
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KABUL -- Calling child suicide bombers a "fearful and terrifying truth," President Hamid Karzai on Sunday freed a 14-year-old Pakistani boy who had been arrested in early June in eastern Afghanistan, the night before he planned to kill a provincial governor.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett met Afghan President Hamid Karzai amid tight security Wednesday, a day after a suicide blast during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney killed up to 20 people.
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A court in Afghan capital sentenced to death a killer of four journalists Saturday, a spokesman of Afghan Supreme Court said. &quot;The verdict was issued after the killer, Riza Khan
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With his lips quivering and voice breaking, a tearful President Hamid Karzai on Sunday lamented that Afghan children are being killed by NATO and U.S. bombs and by terrorists from Pakistan &#151; a portrait of helplessness in the face of spiraling chaos.
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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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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that the Taliban&#039;s fugitive leader should come out of hiding and face justice. An audio tape allegedly made by Mullah Omar and aired Sunday by a Pakistani television station said the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan government do not have the ability to solve Afghanistan&#039;s escalating violence.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the killing of up to 10 civilians after US forces opened fire following an ambush, a statement from the president's office said Monday.