Associated Press
| Mar 25, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a rare show of recent unity between their two nations as the American military ceded control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan. The transfer, carried out in a cere...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 12, 2013
Monday marked the deadliest day for US troops this year in Afghanistan after seven soldiers perished in two separate incidents. Five US service members were killed in a helicopter crash outside Kandahar city. Hours earlier, two US soldiers were sh...
Associated Press
| Mar 10, 2013
New US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel went on the defensive tonight after meeting with a testy Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who accused the US on national TV of secretly negotiating daily with the Taliban and colluding to keep US forces in his na...
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Mosaic
| Feb 13, 2013
After US President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that more than half of the American forces in Afghanistan would be withdrawn this year, the Afghan government expressed its readiness to take over security missions in the...
Associated Press
| Jan 10, 2013
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington for crucial talks on Afghanistan's future. Ahead of a dinner with Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta, he discussed health issues with Clinton, who returned to work this week after being treated for a bl...
— Dec 17, 2012 at 06:15 pm
...1996 - Declines an invitation to become Taliban ambassador to the United Nations. 1999 - Karzai's father is murdered in Quetta, Pakistan, allege...
— Feb 26, 2012 at 06:31 pm
...Hamid Karzai on Sunday urged Afghans to avoid violent retaliation for the burning of a pile of Korans at the main US military base in Afghanista...
— Feb 4 at 01:20 pm
...no complete security, there's no total stability. This is a strange situation and, again, full of risk. Well, it depends on the purposes we all ...
— last Sunday at 07:59 am
Hamid Karzai GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 22 December 2001. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001. During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany, Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six-month term as Chairman of the Interim Administration.
He was then chosen for a two-year term as Interim President during the 2002 loya jirga that was held in Kabul, Afghanistan. After the 2004 presidential election, Karzai was declared winner and became President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. He won a second five-year term in the 2009 presidential election.
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