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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A day after naming his new cabinet, Afghanistan&#39;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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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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Two people were killed in clashes on Saturday between US 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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KABUL: The new governor of Afghanistanâs riot-hit western province of Herat has told the news agency that he hopes aid agency staff, who pulled out of the provincial capital after violent attacks, will return soon.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday evening announced the much-awaited new cabinet line-up, replacing some of the influential warlords in the interim government with new faces.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai has named a new Cabinet, sacking the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nationâs first democratically elected president.
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November 5, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday there was no future for the warlords or drug barons who flourished during three decades of conflict in Afghanistan.
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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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A leading rights group urged Afghan  President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to sideline warlords  implicated in rights abuses and strengthen the rule of law when  he announces a new cabinet after being sworn in next week.
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Afghanistan&#39;s program to disarm militiamen began in the southern city of Kandahar, the ousted Taliban&#39;s former stronghold, as President Hamid Karzai announced his new Cabinet.
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A former Taleban commander who switched sides is made governor of the Afghan town of Musa Qala.
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Two people have been killed in clashes between troops and stone-throwing protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing a regional governor.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai pledged yesterday to use his five-year term as Afghanistan's first elected president to crack down on warlords and the reemerging country's booming drug economy.
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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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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed Pakistan for violence in his country, saying &quot;state elements&quot; were supporting insurgents in Afghanistan.