KABUL, Afghanistan -- Concerned that it is being left out of potential peace talks between the United States and the Taliban, the Afghan government is pushing to open its own direct negotiations with the insurgent group in Saudi Arabia, Afghan officials said on Monday. The talks would be separate from efforts by the United States to begin...
PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Friday that France would break with its allies in NATO and accelerate the French withdrawal from Afghanistan, pulling back combat troops a year early, by the end of 2013. Mr. Sarkozy also said that he and Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, would ask the NATO alliance for a similar speedup of the...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- No peace talks with the Taliban this week: That was the short message on Sunday from the American envoy charged with starting those negotiations. Stopping here in Kabul this weekend on his way to Qatar, where the insurgents are in the process of opening an office, the envoy, Marc Grossman, implicitly rejected reports that he...
Hamid Karzai (حامد کرزى med det arabiske alfabet), født 24. december 1957 i Karz nær Kandahar) er præsident i Afghanistan. Han blev 5. december 2001 af FN udnævnt som leder af overgangsregeringen i Afghanistan
. Stammerådet i Afghanistan, Loya jirga, udnævnte ham til præsident 13. juni 2002.
Karzai er etnisk pasthun og medlem af den magtfulde Populzai-klan. Han er uddannet i statskundskab ved Himachal University i Shimla, Indien 1979-1983. Efter hjemkomsten arbejdede han gennem 1980'erne med at skaffe penge til kampen mod den sovjetiske besættelse af Afghanistan. Efter Sovjetunionens tilbagetrækning blev han minister i Burhanuddin Rabbanis regering. Fold ud