Hamid Karzai News

Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago.

An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house.

Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 70 near the southern city of Kandahar, an official said.

A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of the Afghan capital.

New Delhi, May 16 : Afghan President Hamid Karzai will pay a three-day official visit to India from May 20 to hold wide-ranging discussions with Indian leaders, the Afghan ambassador said Thursday.

An Afghan soldier protects the palace of King Amanullah that was partly destroyed in the 1992-1996 civil war.

Earlier this week, Hamid Karzai confirmed that the United States will build nine new military bases in Afghanistan, including a strategic base at the border with Iran, with White House spokesman Jay Carney assuring us that these nine new bases will not be permanent.

WAM ABU DHABI, 16th May, 2013 -- In line with its drive to support progress in developing countries, the Acting Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi and his accompanying delegation have attended a foundation stone laying ceremony for a housing project in Kabul.

A suicide bomber in a car targeted two vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday killing at least six Afghan civilians, Afghan officials said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, calling to congratulate Pakistan's prime minister-elect this week on his victory in parliamentary elections , said he hoped the new government in Islamabad would create a "brotherly and peaceful atmosphere with Afghanistan" and cooperate in efforts to destroy terrorist hideouts so both "brother nations" can be saved.

The British police have taken notice of hundreds of complaints lodged by British and Pakistani citizens against MQM chief Altaf Hussain for his recent remarks inciting violence.

At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman was asked by Senator Bob Corker, ranking member of the committee, whether allegations of secret U.S. cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai help prevent corruption in Afghanistan.

It's been a brutal few days in Afghanistan. On Sunday, the local government accused an American special operator of torturing an Afghan civilian .

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Jan.

Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal accused several MPs of smuggling items such as cars, fuel and flour.

Following up on a May 2 letter to President Obama, Senator Bob Corker, R-Tn., the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Tuesday continued to seek an explanation for reports alleging the U.S. has made millions of dollars in secret cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the past decade.

The US sole worry is to ensure safe and smooth withdrawal of US-NATO troops. At the same time it wishes to ensure peaceful transition of power in Afghanistan and to leave behind stable Afghanistan under a US friendly regime.

America's long-running, mondo-bizzaro courtship of Afghanistan's mercurial Hamid Karzai got even wilder and wackier this month.

The United States of America on Sunday once again emphasized on the legal status of Durand Line as the border line between Afghanistan and Pakistan despite Afghan president Hamid Karzai insisted that the government of Afghanistan will never accept the legal status of Durand Line.

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