KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ Taliban officials have engaged in periodic, discreet contacts with Afghan and U.S. officials for months but are unwilling to move to formal peace negotiations until the U.S. agrees to a timetable
Kabul: A suicide bomber killed a deputy provincial governor and five others Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Later, a tearful President Hamid Karzai decried the violence, fretting that young people will choose to flee
A Pakistani newspaper on Thursday reported that Pakistan President Asif Zardari has given names of four international personalities - US ex-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Saudi Arabia intelligence chief Prince Muqrin
In a delicate balancing act, President Hamid Karzai on Thursday described India as a "close friend" while referring to Pakistan and Afghanistan as "conjoined twins." In remarks apparently aimed at assuaging Pakistan's concerns about the
Afghanistan's election commission on Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped Prsident Hamid Karzai's votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's team said on Tuesday he would accept a ruling from election authorities after a fraud probe that could lose him over a million votes and deprive him of outright victory. The
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