Afghan Government Removes a Powerful Regional Leader
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The Afghan government on Saturday announced the removal of the powerful governor of Herat, in western Afghanistan, one of the country&#39;s longest standing warlords.
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When President Hamid Karzai sacked Afghanistan&#39;s most powerful provincial governor and his own close rival at the weekend, protesters in the western city of Herat
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KABULâA day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped a rocket attack on his helicopter, he slipped away from his US security guards and left the presidential
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani tribal elders overseeing a pact between the government and pro-Taliban militants have resigned over a government raid on a militant camp launched without their consent, an elder said on Friday.
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Former defence minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Yunus Qanooni, who stepped down as education minister to run against Karzai for president, were pushed out.
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An editorial published by independent daily Pagah has criticized the government's recent move to limit media activities, impose control over the state-run media and dismiss the director-general of the National Radio and Television.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's counternarcotics minister has resigned only weeks after Afghan laborers finished cultivating an opium poppy crop that could exceed last year's record haul.
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The chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he and several other presidential contenders are withdrawing their rejection of Saturday's election.
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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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KABUL Afghanistan&#39;s new cabinet was sworn in on Friday, sealing the removal of some high-profile warlords from the government.
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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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Burmaâs secretive military regime has sacked its prime minister, seen as a relative pragmatist, and replaced him with a general who has taken a hard line in dealing with the countryâs pro-democracy movement.
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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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An Afghan provincial governor has lashed out against the government of President Hamid Karzai, saying there was a "vacuum of authority" in remote areas that the Taliban or criminals would fill.
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A renegade Afghan warlord has been arrested and brought to the capital by the central government, just weeks after his troops clashed with militiamen loyal to a powerful regional governor, officials said.
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A senior Taliban military leader has been killed in southern Uruzgan province, Afghan top security official confirmed Sunday. &quot;Mullah Abdul Ghafar along with his two colleagues
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s government Saturday replaced two governors, including a strongman in the west, in a bold step to establish control ahead of landmark presidential elections.