Summary: Karzai Sworn in As Afghan Leader
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THE CEREMONY: Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a five-year term as Afghan president after winning the country&#39;s first vote for head of state.
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Hamid Karzai becomes Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president today at an inauguration ceremony in the capital Kabul, as the United Nations said warlords and drug trafficking threaten the country&#39;s security.
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Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, has sworn in a new cabinet that sidelines powerful militia leaders in favour of reformers.
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HERAT, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has won a majority of votes in Afghanistan&#39;s election, effectively clinching a five-year term and becoming the country&#39;s first democratically elected leader, according to preliminary results released Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 3 -- President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday was officially declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever democratic presidential election more than three weeks after votes were cast, giving him a five-year mandate to try to steer this country out of a quarter-century of civil war and strife.
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president amid tight security. There had been fears that supporters of the previous Taliban ruling regime would attempt to sabotage the ceremony in Kabul.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai was officially declared Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever popularly elected president today after a weeks-long fraud probe found no reason to overturn his landslide victory.
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President Hamid Karzai took the helm yesterday of a country whose revival is threatened by a growing opium trade and a persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging to bring stability and prosperity to Afghanistan even as rebels made attacks near the Pakistani
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president today, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai was officially declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election yesterday, more than three weeks after votes were cast, giving him a five-year mandate to try to steer this country out of a quarter
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Hamid Karzai has been declared as Afghanistan&#39;s president after an electoral commission concluded that vote rigging had not affected the result.
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Kabul, Dec 7 (UNI) Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, sworn-in today as the first democratically elected head of his state, praised India&#39;s role in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
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KABUL - Hamid Karzai officially became Aghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president Tuesday in a swearing-in ceremony attended by US Vice President Dick Cheney and about other 150 foreign dignitaries.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, and new Cabinet members during the swearing in ceremony of the country&#39;s new Cabinet at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Dec. 24.
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the presidential election, securing a new five-year term as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s inauguration as Afghanistan&#39;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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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistanâs first popularly elected president yesterday, promising to bring peace to the war-torn nation and an end to the economyâs dependence on narcotics.