Karzai Uncle Sam&#39;s man
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WASHINGTON, October 08 (Online): As Afghans prepare for their first presidential elections on October 9, President Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, is being challenged by over a dozen factional leaders, but most Afghans and international officials expect him to
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s capital is under tight security for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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In July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ditched his vice-president, Marshal Mohammad Fahim, one of the countryâs most powerful warlords.
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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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Hamid Karzai was set to be sworn in on Tuesday as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.
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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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The main challenger to President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that he had accepted a proposal by the United Nations and the US ambassador to start an independent
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ISLAMABAD: President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, met President Gen. Pervez Musharraf; Prime Minister, Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain, and Foreign Minister, Khurshid Kasuri, in Islamabad today in which he discussed
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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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Hamid Karzai also tells CNN that the al-Qaida leader will be caught because, as he put it, âhe can&#39;t run forever.&#39;&#39;.
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The Turkeys have arrived in Afghanistan - and so has the French President. The former after a 10-week journey by ship and truck; the latter by presidential jet. Both bear tidings of goodwill
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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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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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For a man whose election victory in  October was never in doubt, Afghanistan's President Hamid  Karzai is taking his time picking a cabinet from a lineup of  military strongmen and civilians returning from the West.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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Five days before Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, concerns are growing about media bias in favour of front-runner President Hamid Karzai.
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Security for US Vice-President Dick Cheney has been ordered stepped up in Kabul on news the Taliban has plans to disrupt his visit, The Telegraph reports.