Karzai names warlords to 2 governorships
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KABUL President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan appointed two warlords and former cabinet members to influential governorships in an effort to keep the strongmen happy - but outside of his central government.
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Two people were reported killed in a protest over Afghan President Karzai&#39;s decision to replace a powerful provincial governor.
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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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A day after naming his new cabinet,  Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai said he had asked his main  rival to form a national political party ahead of parliamentary  elections due in April.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed Pakistan for violence in his country, saying &quot;state elements&quot; were supporting insurgents in Afghanistan.
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Two people were killed in clashes on  Saturday between U.S. and Afghan forces and stone-throwing  protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing  a regional governor, hospital officials and witnesses said.
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The governor of Herat urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to put on trial a renegade commander whose forces swept through the province before
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The runner-up to Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential elections congratulated Mr. Karzai on Saturday on the formation of his cabinet, but said
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President Hamid Karzai has chosen a new Cabinet, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions &#151; including the defense minister &#151; and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production, government officials said Thursday.
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of last month&#39;s Afghan presidential election Wednesday and now faces the task of forming a government minus the warlords and drug runners who tainted his last cabinet.
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KABUL, Dec 6: President Hamid Karzai has held discussions with arch rival Yunus Qanuni over a possible position in the next Afghan government, a spokesman for Mr Karzai said on Monday.
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Hamid Karzai named a new cabinet on Thursday, sacking the country&#39;s prominent defence minister and removing other warlords from top spots in a major reshuffle weeks after he was sworn in as the nation&#39;s first democratically elected president.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai sidelined leaders of powerful regional factions in his new cabinet line-up announced on Thursday. Karzai won Afghanistan&#39;s first democratic
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Chechnya&#039;s new separatist leader has named warlord Shamil Basayev, wanted by Russia for a string of shocking terrorist attacks, as his vice president in a move that could signal a radicalization of the Chechen rebel movement.
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A fervent desire among Afghans who have just chosen their first president is to end the rule of warlords, but analysts say a future leader would find it difficult to grant his constituents' wish to rule without them.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai chose  Saturday's third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the  United States to launch his election manifesto and effectively  dismiss a powerful governor just hours after pledging to rein  in regional warlords.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai has steered Afghanistan from the ruins of war to its first elected presidency, using skills honed from plotting to end Soviet occupation and negotiating the minefield of volatile Afghan politics.