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Gates: US to do its part to slow Afghan corruption
Nov 20th, 2009 - AOL News
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government...British foreign secretary attends Afghan President Karzai's inauguration
Nov 19th, 2009 - XinHua
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is visiting Afghanistan and attending the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai as a witness to the new contract between President Karzai and the Afghan people...
Clinton pleased with Karzai's promises
Nov 19th, 2009 - CNN
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she is pleased by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's pledge to have the country's security forces take the lead over the next few years.
Speaking to U.S...Clinton: Afghan election needs to yield `results'
Nov 19th, 2009 - Forbes
KABUL -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the international community will support the embattled Afghan government, but expects it to build up the country's defense forces...
To succeed in Afghanistan, we must fail
Nov 18th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Writing From Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration today will be a somber affair. Gray storm clouds are slowly replacing the blue skies, and the sour tang of charcoal smoke hangs in the air...
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6:16Afghan presidential runoff becomes one-man race - 02 Nov 09
Al Jazeera's James Bays discusses the potential fallout of opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah's decision to pull out of Afghanistan's presidential runoff vote.
4:33Exclusive: Taliban mediators, Afghan and Western officials in secret talks - 26 Feb 09
As the Afghan foreign minister meets his US counterpart in Washington, Al Jazeera has learnt of secret talks between Taliban-linked mediators and Afghan officials, which could lead to wider negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban ...
3:48Afghan defectors turn to the Taliban - 15 Oct 08
Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence that an increasing number of Afghan forces are switching sides - joining the Taliban and turning their weapons against those they used to fight alongside. Dan Nolan reports.
2:22Afghanistan's new anti-government groups - 01 Aug 08
The talk for months has been of a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, and Nato commanders have been pleading for more troops. But there are new signs that the battle for control of the country is changing. New groups are emerging to fight against the government of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president ...
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In recent years the politics of Afghanistan have been dominated by the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, by the NATO forces and the subsequent efforts to stabilise and democratise the country. The nation's new constitution has been adopted and an executive president democratically elected in 2004. The parliamentary elections took place the following year, in September 2005.
The current president Hamid Karzai became the first ever democratically elected head of state in Afghanistan on December 7, 2004. He has begun the process of rebuilding his nation. The National Assembly is Afghanistan's national legislature. It is a bicameral body, composed of the House of the People and the House of the Elders.
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