((For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK])) KABUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai could invite militants to attend a "Loya Jirga", or grand council meeting, aiming to seek peace and reconciliation with the Taliban, a spokesman said on ...Read More
KABUL, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Afghan parliament member Abdul Rasoul Sayaf on Friday escaped a roadside bomb attack in capital city Kabul, but his four bodyguards were killed and six injured. Witnesses said the bomb hit Sayaf's convoy in Paghman district, ...Read More
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a political survivor who has repeatedly reinvented herself, used her visit to Kabul to appeal to Hamid Karzai - a leader whose image lies in tatters - to seize a window of opportunity and ...Read More
KABUL, Afghanistan — A day after President Hamid Karzai promised a more inclusive government, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 15 people, including several children, in a marketplace in western Afghanistan on Friday, close to a provincial governor's compound, ...Read More
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington - The United States is developing a set of benchmarks to ensure that Afghan President Hamid Karzai keeps a promise delivered at his inauguration to fight corruption and inefficiency, U.S. officials said.
Taking the oath ...Read More
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has killed at least 13 people, including a policeman, in south-west Afghanistan.
The attack in a crowded market in Farah city, capital of Farah province, also wounded 36 people, police said.
Farah, a mainly desert province ...Read More
KABUL, Afghanistan — It is far from clear that President Obama can depend on President Hamid Karzai to bring order to this violent country, but it is becoming clear that he will depend on Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his ...Read More
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, ...Read More
(CNN) -- The war in Afghanistan is winnable, and corruption will be fought, Interior Minister Hanif Atmar told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, as President Hamid Karzai was being sworn in for a second five-year term in Kabul. Atmar said security ...Read More
To everyone's surprise the ceremony began on time, the president walking up a stained, blotchy red carpet to the sound of a rough brass band and thumping drums. Looking immaculate, as he always does, Hamid Karzai's striped green silk Uzbek ...Read More
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