Karzai gets second term after only rival pulls out of run-off (Pic: Ahmad Massood/ AP)
Hamid Karzai will stay put in the Presidential Palace, after Afghanistan’s election commission canceled the second round of a presidential poll.
Karzai was declared the winner after his only rival Abdullah-Abdullah withdrew from the race.
The Independ [...]
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Karzai gets second term after only rival pulls out of run-off (Pic: Ahmad Massood/ AP)
Hamid Karzai will stay put in the Presidential Palace, after Afghanistan’s election commission canceled the second round of a presidential poll.
Karzai was declared the winner after his only rival Abdullah-Abdullah withdrew from the race.
The Independ [...]
The Karzais, Drugs and the C.I.A.
It was common knowledge to everyone on the ground in Afghanistan except for Senator John Kerry that Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Karzai’s brother, heads a massive, lucrative opium trafficking operation.
Kerry said he had asked U.S intelligence agencies “for the smoking gun”, and had not gotten “the hard and fast” [...]