First the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for months after his term actually expired, on the grounds that an election in the late summer would be easier to arrange. They finally... [read full story]
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First the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for months after his term actually expired, on the grounds that an election in the late summer would be easier to arrange. They finally...
KABUL - President Hamid Karzai's challenger plans to call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in an attempt to force the vote's postponement until spring, his campaign manager has said. Karzai rejected Abdullah...
The best-possible interpretations are being applied as developments in Afghanistan begin increasingly to resemble a very bad dream. According to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the decision by presidential...
ISLAMABAD - Abdullah Abdullah, who this week withdrew from the presidential election runoff in Afghanistan, thereby handing victory to the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, did so under pressure from the United States, Asia Times Online...
Following the "victory by default" re-election of Hamid Karzai as Pres. of Afghanistan, our military soldiers now face declining public support for this puppet government installed by GW Bush years earlier. When can we be...
Adnkronos International (AKI), the Italian news agency, reports that the U.S., in the person of Hillary Clinton, pressured Hamid Karzai rival Abdullah Abdullah to drop out of the presidential race. The $1.5 billion annual aid...
Islamabad, 6 Nov. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - The United States put pressure on Afghan president Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, to withdraw from the country's presidential race and hand victory to Karzai, sources...
posted at 10:12 am on November 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Share on Facebook | printer-friendly The sudden withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah from a runoff election against Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan has people scratching their...
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