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Hamid Karzai stories: 143 news summaries

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US Said to Press Secret Afghan Election Deal

Holbrooke allegedly talked to candidate about dropping out

Aug 7, 09 8:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - With two weeks to go before the Afghanistan election, President Hamid Karzai is trying to cut a deal with a fellow Pashtun to help knock his main challenger out of the race. The Independent reports that American envoy Richard Holbrooke and the US ambassador have pushed for the deal, which... More »

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(Newser) - Afghanistan’s real presidential race has been a dull, somewhat depressing affair, with little viable opposition to incumbent Hamid Karzai—who one Western diplomat labeled “unpopular and unbeatable”—but the reality TV version is another story entirely, Time reports. The Candidate pits six young Afghans against... More »

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Karzai Looks Vulnerable in Afghan Election

President remains in shadows, relying on powerful connections

Jul 13, 09 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamid Karzai’s stranglehold on the presidency of Afghanistan may be slipping, the Washington Post reports. Though no one is expected to beat him outright in the Aug. 20 election, he may fall short of the 50.01% of the vote needed to win. That would trigger a runoff,... More »

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Carville to Advise Karzai Challenger

Says move shouldn't be seen as US looking for change in Afghan leadership

Jul 6, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Carville is headed to Kabul to advise one of Hamid Karzai’s challengers in Afghanistan’s upcoming election, Bloomberg reports. Carville has close ties to Hillary Clinton, but says the move shouldn’t be seen as a sign the Obama administration is pushing for a leadership change. “I... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • campaign adviser • James Carville • election • Afghanistan war • Ashraf Ghani • Abdullah Abdullah

Ravaged by War, Bitter Afghans Sneak Into Europe

Conditions aren't much better, but youth want escape from war, death

Jul 4, 09 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fed up with years of war and shaky government, young Afghans are forking over their life savings to be smuggled into Europe, the New York Times reports. An American-led invasion once inspired optimism, but 18,000 residents sought asylum in Europe last year, nearly double the total in 2007. “... More »

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Afghanistan • Europe • Hamid Karzai • deportation • smuggler • Afghanistan war • migrants

Karzai to Taliban:
Please Vote

Afghan prez urges militants to participate in election, not attack it

Jun 27, 09 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The president of Afghanistan has urged members of the Taliban to vote at the polls instead of attacking them in the country’s upcoming election, AFP reports. Incumbent Hamid Karzai said in a press conference today the Taliban should "vote for the president they want" in the Aug. 20... More »

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analysis

Afghan Prez Squeezes Out Opponents

Unpopular Karzai has horse-traded his way
to likely reelection

Jun 25, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan’s president isn’t popular with his people—in a recent poll, just 31% said they would vote for him—but he’ll probably win an August election anyway, Dexter Filkins reports in the New York Times. Hamid Karzai, in power for 8 years, is blamed for widespread corruption... More »

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US Cuts Deal on Central Asia Military Base

Troops must leave,
but base will help Afghanistan mission

Jun 23, 09 6:05 AM CDT
(AP) - The US has agreed to more than triple the rent it pays for use of a key air base in Kyrgyzstan to ship non-lethal military supplies to Afghanistan under a deal approved today, reports the AP. The accord over the Manas Air Base comes four months after the Central Asian... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Hamid Karzai • US military • Kyrgyzstan • Afghanistan war • Manas Air Base

(Newser) - George W. Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan is considering taking a powerful, unelected position in Hamid Karzai’s government, the New York Times reports. Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-born US citizen, had considered running against Karzai for president, but missed the filing deadline. Senior American and Afghan officials say Karzai... More »

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FIRST PERSON

Karzai's Brother Threatened Me: US Reporter

Questions on alleged involvement in Afghan drug trade enrage him

May 11, 09 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - It turns out Ahmed Wali Karzai is a bit touchy about his alleged ties to Afghanistan’s drug trade. When McClatchy reporter Tom Lasseter tried to interview the president’s brother about the allegations, he said they were part of a political plot against his brother. But when Lasseter began... More »

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 Obama Praises Afghan, 
 Pakistan Commitments 

Delicate diplomacy ends with unified resolve to fight militants

May 6, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(AP) - President Obama said he got the commitments he wanted today from the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to more aggressively fight militants gaining power and sowing violence inside their countries' borders. The high-stakes diplomacy had Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari meeting with officials separately and together. Looming... More »

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(Newser) - Many civilians were killed in two Afghan villages hit by a US airstrike on Monday, the Red Cross said today, confirming both "dozens of bodies" and allegations coming from Kabul. “There were bodies, there were graves, and there were people burying bodies,” a spokeswoman said. “We... More »

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ANALYSIS

 A Doubting 
 Washington 
 Greets Karzai 

Afghan president has 'plateaued,' diplomats say

May 6, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly eight years after the fall of the Taliban, Hamid Karzai comes to the White House today to meet an administration distinctly unimpressed with his governance of Afghanistan. In interviews with two dozen Washington officials, the Washington Post finds anger and frustration with a president overseeing a weak and corrupt... More »

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Stakes Massive Ahead of Obama Af-Pak Summit

Zardari, Karzai in DC
 as Taliban surge in crumbling Pakistan

May 6, 09 6:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama begins two days of talks with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan today as his administration faces what may be its first foreign policy crisis: rising militancy in the Swat Valley that threatens to spread across the nuclear-armed nation. Obama and his team are expected to pressure Asif... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Pakistan • Hamid Karzai • Pakistan militants • Asif Ali Zardari • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Richard Holbrooke

Karzai Takes Ex-Warlords as Afghan Running Mates

Qasim Fahim held the post until 2004

May 4, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai tapped a former mujahedeen warlord as one of his two vice-presidential candidates today, the New York Times reports. Muhammad Qasim Fahim was Karzai’s vice president from the beginning of his administration through 2004, and still holds sway with political parties made up of former guerrillas.... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • vice president • election • mujahedeen • Muhammad Fahim • Muhammad Karim Khalili

Afghan Prez Confirms Re-Election Bid

Karzai promises to amend controversial 'marital rape' law

Apr 28, 09 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has confirmed for the first time that he will run for re-election in the country's elections this summer, the Times of London reports. Karzai repeated his pledge to amend a controversial law critics say condones marital rape and child marriage, surprising observers who believed he would... More »

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Brown Talks Terrorism With Pakistani PM

Snubbed by Zardari, British PM focuses on tackling extremism

Apr 27, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - British PM Gordon Brown held talks with Pakistani leaders today, appearing at a joint press conference with his counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani, after President Asif Ali Zardari dropped out at the last minute. The BBC attributes the snub to unhappiness with the recent British arrest of 11 Pakistani nationals... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • Pakistan • Gordon Brown • Hamid Karzai • Asif Ali Zardari

Afghanistan Changing 'Legalized Rape' Law

Afghan prez says he hadn't been aware law was on the books

Apr 17, 09 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan will revise a law that critics say legalizes marital rape, President Hamid Karzai tells CNN. Karzai said he was unaware of the provision, part of a 270-page piece of legislation covering the country's 6 million Shiite Muslims. "Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy of the country,... More »

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(Newser) - Pressure from British and German leaders over legalized rape in Afghanistan has pushed President Hamid Karzai to order a review of a law governing Shiites, Reuters reports. Karzai said the Justice Ministry would scrutinize the Shiite Personal Status Law and send it back to parliament if necessary. But he said... More »

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Critics: Afghan 'Home Rape' Law Worse
Than Taliban

Wives can't refuse sex in Karzai nod to right

Mar 31, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are blasting a new law in Afghanistan that forbids a woman to refuse sex with her husband or to leave home without his permission, reports the Guardian. The law, opposed by the UN, is viewed as a major step backward for women in a nation whose constitution supports equal... More »

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Afghanistan • women's rights • Hamid Karzai • sexism • United States • rape • sexual assault

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