by Mujib Mashal | Aug 8, 2016 | World
Kabul-Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president and current antagonist to his successor’s government, likes to describe Afghan politics as a marathon. To the long roll call of visitors he meets each day — regional power brokers and elders, government officials,...
by Amir Taheri | Sep 26, 2014 | Opinion
With news from the Middle East dominated by horror stories, little attention has been paid to a small piece of good news from a remote corner of the turbulent region. Earlier this week, the outgoing President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai bid his fellow countrymen...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 5, 2014 | World
Kabul, Reuters—A UN-supervised audit of votes in Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election has finished, an Afghan electoral official said on Friday. The audit of the June 14 run-off election was part of a US-brokered deal to defuse escalating tension in a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 15, 2014 | World
Gardez, Reuters—A car packed with explosives detonated on Tuesday as it was passing by a crowded market in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika, killing at least 30 people and wounding 40, police said. “Right now, police are taking all the wounded to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 12, 2014 | World
Kabul, Reuters—US Secretary of State John Kerry scrambled to produce a deal by the end of Saturday to end Afghanistan’s election crisis, meeting for the second day with the country’s two presidential candidates and incumbent President Hamid Karzai. The...
