Karzai wins mandate for offensive on warlords and drugs trade
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Hamid Karzai has been officially named winner of the Afghan election, becoming the country&#39;s first leader to be elected by the people and putting him in a strong position for a confrontation
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KABUL, Dec 23  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a new cabinet which pushes out warlords and installs technocrats capable of fighting drugs and driving reform, the presidential palace said Thursday.
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Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday swore in a new cabinet which sidelines powerful warlords and brings in reformers to battle drugs and rebuild the shattered country.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on  course on Tuesday for an outright victory in the country's  historic presidential election with almost a quarter of the  votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.
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KABUL - Only two days after his inauguration, President Hamid Karzai is already trying to get the message out -- Afghanistan needs to stem its booming drugs trade if the country is going to move forward.
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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.
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai is the official winner of last month&#39;s historic Afghan presidential election, the body organizing the vote said on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 4 -- In his first public comments since handily winning Afghanistan's first democratic election, President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to assemble a "representative" government. But he said he did not feel bound to offer top cabinet positions to his defeated rivals, and he vowed that drug dealers and militia commanders would have no part in the new Afghanistan.
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KABUL, DECEMBER 7: Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistanâs first popularly elected President on Tuesday, promising to bring peace to the war-torn nation and end the economyâs dependence on narcotics.
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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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Interim President Hamid Karzai has won Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the spokesman for the election commission said.
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Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election Wednesday, after investigators concluded that a string of irregularities were too minor to overturn his triumph.
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai has won the required majority of votes for outright victory in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election and is awaiting the announcement of official results, his campaign spokesman told AFP.
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Early results from the Afghan election suggest interim president Hamid Karzai has won enough votes for victory.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed on Friday to strike Taliban insurgents with "immense vigor and force" as a rebel commander said 10,000 fighters had deployed for a spring offensive against foreign troops in the country.
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The leader of Afghanistan&#39;s interim government, Hamid Karzai, has been officially declared the winner of last month&#39;s presidential election.