Tag: Karzai

Zardari, Karzai discuss bilateral ties

Afghan President Hamid Karzai telephoned President Zardari Wednesday night and discussed issues of bilateral interest, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. The spokesperson said that President...

Karzai agrees to Taliban office in Qatar

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said he will accept Taliban insurgents opening a representative office in the Gulf state of Qatar for the purpose of...

Karzai urges ‘neighbourly’ ties with Pakistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday urged Pakistan not to forge its policy on Afghanistan based on its rivalries with either India or the...

Karzai wants immediate halt to NATO night raids

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday demanded an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids and for foreign forces to stop entering Afghan homes,...

Karzai wants immediate halt to NATO night raids

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday called for an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids, his spokesman Aimal Faizi said. "The president of Afghanistan...

Foreigners fuelling corruption in Afghanistan: Karzai

Foreigners are fuelling the problem of corruption in Afghanistan, a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world, the Afghan President...

Kabul shrine bomb death toll reaches 80: Karzai

The death toll from a shrine bombing in Kabul on Tuesday which targeted a key Shiite Muslim holiday has reached 80, Afghan President Hamid...

Karzai will not seek third term: spokesman

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is not secretly planning to change the country’s constitution to seek a third term in power, his spokesman insisted on...

Karzai will not seek third term: spokesman

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is not secretly planning to change the country's constitution to seek a third term in power, his spokesman insisted on...

Karzai blames LJ for rare sectarian attacks

Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed Pakistan’s extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group for a bomb at a Kabul shrine that killed 59 people, demanding justice from Pakistan...

Karzai says Pakistan boycott will not stop cooperation

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Pakistan’s boycott of the Bonn Conference on the future of Afghanistan will not stop bilateral cooperation. Pakistan had...

Karzai back in Kabul to meet shrine bomb victims

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived back in Kabul on Wednesday after cancelling a planned trip to Britain to visit victims of a bombing which...

Bonn 2011

The road ahead The Bonn Conference is being convened at a time when all eyes are fixed on December 2014, the final date for withdrawal...

Karzai will try to hold on to power beyond 2014: report

Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to try to stay in power after 2014, the end of his second and final mandate under the constitution,...

Karzai offers to protect Taliban from ‘Pakistani spies’

Afghan officials have revealed that Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai offered resettlement packages for the families of Taliban leaders living in Pakistan to find peace...

Karzai urges Gilani to reconsider Bonn boycott

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had urged him in a telephone call to reconsider a boycott of...

Karzai to discuss NATO strike, Bonn Conference with Zardari

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will soon speak to President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss the recent NATO strikes and the suspicion that Pakistan may...