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NEWS ABOUT: Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai stories: 143 news summaries

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Pakistan Hunts for Missing Diplomat

Ambassador to Afghanistan feared kidnapped near border

Feb 12, 08 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistani officials are hunting for their ambassador to neighboring Afghanistan, and the country's president believes he was abducted, Reuters reports. "The Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan has been kidnapped while traveling to Afghanistan," Hamid Karzai said. The diplomat went missing yesterday while traveling through the Khyber Pass, a region... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Hamid Karzai • Peshawar • kidnapping • Kabul • al-Qaeda • Khyber Pass • Tariq Azizuddin • ambassador

Bush Envoy Wants to Rule Afghanistan, Rumors Say

Ambassador lets political buzz persist

Feb 11, 08 5:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Diplomatic circles are abuzz about a US envoy who reportedly wants to rule Afghanistan next year. Zalmay Khalilzad, ex-US diplomat to Afghanistan and Iraq, hasn't squelched the gossip about his presidential aspirations either. He even joked at Columbia University recently that “I didn’t come here to collect contributions... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • United Nations • Hamid Karzai • Zalmay Khalilzad • George Soros

Rice Pays Surprise Visit
to Kandahar

Bid to reassure Afghan president of NATO commitment

Feb 7, 08 5:58 AM CST
(Newser) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart David Miliband made a surprise visit today to Kandahar, the dangerous city in southern Afghanistan that diplomats rarely visit. Rice and Miliband will meet Hamid Karzai later today to try to reassure the Afghan president that his country remains a... More »

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Afghanistan • Condoleezza Rice • Hamid Karzai • David Miliband • Kandahar

Afghan Student Faces Death for Blasphemy

Journalist condemned for reading document on women, Koran

Jan 31, 08 8:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Protesters in Afghanistan and abroad have taken up the cause of a journalism student sentenced to death for blasphemy after he downloaded and distributed a document on women and the Koran. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was convicted in an Islamic court, and the country's Senate has upheld the ruling. He... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • journalism • Koran • Muslim women • blasphemy • Sayed Pervez Kambaksh

US Wants More NATO Troops for Afghan War

US calls on NATO allies for reinforcements

Jan 30, 08 5:23 AM CST
(Newser) - The US will pressure its NATO allies to commit more troops to Afghanistan, Reuters reports, but won't send more Americans, beyond the 3,200-Marine surge ordered last month. The need for increased manpower in the 6-year-old conflict resurfaced this week when Canada's prime minister threatened to withdraw his nation's 2,... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Pentagon • Hamid Karzai • surge • International Security Assistance Force • Paddy Ashdown • al-Qaeda

UK Wants to Talk to Taliban

Brown to announce major revision of Afghan strategy, rankling Washington

Dec 12, 07 8:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Just back from Kabul, Gordon Brown is poised to announce a major strategic revision in Afghanistan that will involve dialogue with the Taliban. Senior British officials believe that treating the loose-knit organization as a unified terrorist actor is counterproductive, the Independent reports, and they want to move from fighting militants... More »

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Afghanistan • Bush administration • Taliban • London • White House • Gordon Brown • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • terrorist • British military

Taliban Reclaiming Afghanistan

Now established in
54% of country and headed for Kabul

Nov 22, 07 4:49 AM CST
(Newser) - The Taliban is rapidly regaining control of Afghanistan, according to a report released by the Senlis Council, an independent think tank. The insurgency has established a permanent presence in 54% of the country, including "important road arteries," and the Taliban's goal of reaching Kabul in 2008 seems "... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Middle East • Hamid Karzai • Senlis Council

Karzai Presses Taliban Talks

Afghan president offers amnesty, roles in government

Nov 9, 07 11:58 AM CST
(Newser) - As bloodshed escalates in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai is pressing for negotiations with senior members of the Taliban, writes the Los Angeles Times. Foreign diplomats and members of Karzai's own government now believe that peace cannot be achieved by military means, and the president is hoping to achieve some form of... More »

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Afghanistan • United Nations • Taliban • Hamid Karzai

US Targets Afghan Opium Crop

Karzai reluctant to allow spraying of heroin producing crop

Oct 8, 07 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is pressing the Afghan government to stem its booming poppy crop with mass spraying following the biggest opium harvests in its history—which accounts for 91% of the world's production. Therein lies much of the resurgent Taliban's revenue, the New York Times reports, but Karzai fears a Taliban-inspired... More »

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Afghanistan • United Nations • Taliban • Condoleezza Rice • heroin • Hamid Karzai • opium • poppies • eradication • herbicide • counternarcotics • glyphosate • Antonio Maria Costa • John P. Walters • Farooq Wardak • General Khodaidad • William B. Wood • Helmand province

Karzai Defies Legislators' Call to Sack Minister

Afghanistan parliament headed for "collapse" over standoff, MPs say

Sep 26, 07 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan's government is at the breaking point, as President Hamid Karzai continues to defy the legislature's wishes to remove the country's foreign minister. Four months into the standoff, the New York Times reports, the president's opponents have threatened either to boycott Parliament or quit government altogether. More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • Northern Alliance

Why Are We Losing Afghanistan?

Miscalculated and under-emphasized the country time and again

Aug 12, 07 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Critical misjudgments and a consistent refusal to commit resources undermined what appeared to be a US triumph in routing the Taliban in Afghanistan, the New York Times reports in a detailed analysis of how the "good war" seems to have gone bad. From Donald Rumsfeld’s early rebuff of... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Bosnia • Pakistan • Donald Rumsfeld • Hamid Karzai • Haiti • counterterrorism • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Musharraf Talks at Peace Jirga

General meets with Afghan and Pakistani leaders to discuss extremism

Aug 12, 07 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf  today pledged to fight the "particularly dark form" of extremism that afflicts his country and Afghanistan, speaking to 600 tribal leaders from the two countries at the close of a peace jirga in Kabul, the AP reports. He said the rise of militancy is preventing... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • globalization • Hamid Karzai • extremism • jirga • peace jirga • tribal council

Musharraf Bails on Karzai Meeting

Pakistan chief snubs Afghan jirga; US claims 'good reasons'

Aug 8, 07 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pervez Musharraf has backed out of meetings with his Afghan counterpart in an abrupt snub that initially shocked Washington. Musharraf told Hamid Karzai he has other “engagements" at home in Pakistan and can't attend the meeting of tribal leaders intended to discuss military violence. The US is looking into... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Hamid Karzai • United States • Islamabad • Islamic extremism • jirga • tribal leaders

Bush, Karzai Diverge on Iran

Leaders discuss regional stability

Aug 6, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush and Hamid Karzai emerged from today's Camp David meetings together, but they've clearly parted ways on the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and Iran's role in Afghanistan. Bush put the onus on Iran to demonstrate that it's not a "destabilizing force," the Washington Post reports, but Karzai is already... More »

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Afghanistan • Iran • Taliban • Pakistan • Hamid Karzai • Camp David • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

Hostage: We Don't Want to Die

Medicines delivered to South Korean captives

Aug 6, 07 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan doctors yesterday delivered medicines to 21 South Korean hostages held by Taliban rebels as one of the captives pleaded for their lives in an emotional radio interview. "We are all sick and weak," a nurse told Voice of America, pleading with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • kidnapping • Korean hostages • Lim Hyun Joo • hostage • Ban Ki-Moon

Karzai to Meet With Musharraf

Feuding leaders
will discuss quest for insurgents operating along shared border

Aug 5, 07 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facing mounting US pressure to extinguish the Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden, dueling presidents Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai will meet this week to discuss anti-terrorism efforts, CNN reports. Karzai has criticized his Pakistani counterpart for failed efforts to crack down on terrorism, but today the Afghan leader praised... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Hamid Karzai • Osama bin Laden

Body of Second Korean Hostage Found

More will die unless prisoners are freed, kidnappers warn

Jul 31, 07 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan police have found the body of a second Korean hostage killed by the Taliban, Reuters reports. The man was shot in the head, and his body found in a clover field close to the spot where 23 Korean missionaries were kidnapped last week. The kidnappers have threatened to kill... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • insurgents • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • kidnapping • Kabul • Korean hostages • missionaries • Ghazni • hostage

Afghan Hostage Talks Stall as Threats Escalate

Karzai blasts Taliban, saying abductions
are 'against Islam'

Jul 29, 07 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban will kill 22 South Korean hostages tomorrow if the Afghan government does not release insurgent prisoners, a spokesman for the kidnappers said today. The Taliban leadership council issued the most recent death threat since the abductions Wednesday, signaling its seriousness, Reuters reports. And Afghan and foreign troops are... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • kidnapping • Ghazni • hostage

Force May Be Used to Free Korean Hostages

In phone call, female hostage pleads for release

Jul 28, 07 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - One of the 22 South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan spoke to a Reuters reporter today, saying she and the other remaining hostages are continually moved to different locations. She appealed to both the Taliban and the Afghan government to free them. A senior Afghan official said force “certainly”... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • insurgents • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • Islamic extremists • counterterrorism • Korean hostages • Christian missionaries

1 Killed, 8 Freed in Afghanistan Hostage Crisis

Taliban threatens to kill more South Koreans

Jul 25, 07 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban has killed one of the 23 South Koreans it's holding captive today, and vowed to murder the rest by 1 AM local time if the Afghan government does not release insurgents. CNN reports that 8 hostages have been freed, however, while the slain captive's bullet-riddled body was discovered... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • insurgents • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • kidnapping • Kabul • hostage

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