Karzai Sidelines Warlords, Elevates Opium Fight in Choosing Afghan ...
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai's closest rival in Afghanistan's landmark election insisted Sunday he has a chance for victory, saying Karzai's commanding lead was based on early results and the election could turn on an investigation of fraud allegations.    Former Education Minister Yunus Qanooni told the Associated Press that he was preparing to be in the political opposition as the country moves toward Western-style democracy - though he added that whether he recognizes the results depends on the honesty of the probe into fraud complaints...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday that recent turmoil in Pakistan showed that a "political mutant" of extremism was stalking the region.
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Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has effectively tried to sideline a powerful regional rival by promoting him to cabinet minister less than a month before presidential elections on Oct. 9. Ismail
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KABUL: A leading rights group urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to sideline warlords implicated in rights abuses and strengthen his governmentâs commitment to improving security and the rule of law when he announces a new cabinet after
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As Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever democratic presidential election gains steam, incumbent Hamid Karzai&#39;s biggest challenger is emerging from the pack of 17 other candidates.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was expected to announce a new cabinet line-up today that will sideline leaders of powerful regional factions, political sources said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Early results yesterday showed interim leader Hamid Karzai far ahead of his chief rivals in Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election after a quarter-century of war.
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KABUL (CP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai took the helm Tuesday of a country whose revival is threatened by a surging drug trade and a stubbornly persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging in his inaugural address to bring stability and prosperity, even as
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai sidelined  leaders of powerful regional factions in his new cabinet  line-up announced Thursday, bringing in specialists needed to  win the confidence of Western donors and investors.
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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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Freshly installed Afghan Pres-ident Hamid Karzai was gearing up yesterday to address tribal leaders on the need to eliminate this war-ravaged country&#39;s booming drug trade, an aide said.
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai has declared a holy war on the drugs trade gripping his war-shattered country, which produces nearly nine-tenths of the world&#39;s opium.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a new cabinet which pushes out powerful warlords and installs technocrats capable of fighting drugs and driving reform.
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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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An Afghan Warlord. Accused Drug Kingpin. American Informant. Inside the Afghan Drug War