Afghan army chief seeks independent army
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The head of the Afghan National Army said Monday his country is pushing the United States to accelerate training and equipping his army so the Afghans can fight the Taliban on their own.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s archrival in the Oct. 9 national presidential election Mohammad Yunus Qanooni on Tuesday called for transparent elections.
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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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President Hamid Karzai is under the influence of foreign powers and troops led by NATO and the U.S. must set a firm date for their departure from Afghanistan, a government-run daily newspaper said on Saturday.
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POIANA BRASOV, Romania  - Washington will ask NATO  to devise a blueprint by February to have the alliance take  over operations in Afghanistan, now split between an American  force and NATO contingent, officials said on Tuesday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants  Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan border to work together against the Taleban.
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Afghanistan's presumed president-elect is under pressure to develop a two-party system.
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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 Afghan government and Western officials are seeking to capitalize on a recent attack against the entrenched governor of the western province of Herat by removing
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Nato's secretary general says a number of members have offered more military resources for Afghanistan.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai chose a new cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions and creating a new post to spearhead the fight against opium production.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) asked the Czech Republic to independently run the Kabul International Airport for half a year starting in October 2006, the Czech News Agency reported Sunday.
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QALAT, Afghanistan -- Malik Ali Mahmad and his small security team were on high alert last Tuesday night. They had recently been sent to establish a government outpost in an isolated, Taliban-plagued district, Khaki Afghan, and there were rumors that the Islamic militia was planning a retaliatory raid.
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Mirwais Yasini, director general of  Afghanistan's counter-narcotics department, tells the story of  how a British general asked him for a list of Afghan commanders  involved in the drug trade.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he wants to hold a jirga (council) among Pashtun tribes  to end Taleban violence.
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NATO's top commander renewed an appeal Friday for allies to urgently provide up to 2,500 troops for the battle with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, but officials said it likely would take two weeks before governments reply.
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Seeking to inject last-minute excitement into a lackluster campaign, a leading Afghan presidential candidate said Monday he is trying to team up with other contenders to topple heavily favored interim President Hamid Karzai.