WASHINGTON - Former President Pervez Musharraf, who often had tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, Wednesday criticized as "preposterous" the Afghan leader's statement that his county would stand by Pakistan in case the United States attacked Pakistan. Responding to a question about ...

NEW YORK - President Hamid Karzais statement over the weekend that he would back Pakistan if it went to war with the US gave an 'unexpected jolt to Washingtons latest attempts to strengthen its relationship with the Afghan leader, a major American newspaper said Sunday. The prospects for a US war ...

Ahmed Wali Karzai, a younger brother of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistans president, and one of the countrys most powerful men, has been shot dead by one of his bodyguards, according to a provincial official. Mr Karzai was head of the provincial council in the southern Kandahar province, focus of last ...

U.S. prosecutors are considering whether to indict the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for tax evasion, a leading American newspaper reported, citing officials familiar with the matter. The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York, aided by the Internal Revenue Service, has been examining the ...

The brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a half-million pound profit in eight months on a luxury villa in Dubai bought with a loan from the bank at the centre of a financial and political crisis in Kabul. Mahmoud Karzai, a high-profile businessman in Afghanistan, borrowed seven million ...

Obama administration officials fear that a move by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to assert control over U.S.-backed corruption investigations might provoke the biggest crisis in U.S.-Afghan relations since last year's fraud-riddled election and could further threaten congressional approval of ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suffered a humiliating setback to his authority after parliament rejected two-thirds of his nominees for a new cabinet, including the only woman and a warlord. Only seven out of 24 nominees were approved by more than 200 lawmakers in a secret ballot on Saturday, ...

President Karzai blamed Western forces in Afghanistan for the deaths of a party of schoolchildren in eastern Afghanistan yesterday the day the UN revealed that civilian deaths in the first ten months of this year were 10 per cent higher than in the same period last year. It sounds like the same ...

NEW YORK - The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been receiving regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing current and former US officials. Ahmed Wali Karzai is a suspected player in Afghanistans opium trade and has been ...

Just a week before this countrys presidential election, the leaders of a southern Afghan tribe called Bariz gathered to make a bold decision: they would abandon the incumbent and local favorite, Hamid Karzai, and endorse his challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. Mr. Abdullah flew to the southern city of ...

A battle royal is exactly what Richard Holbrookes detractors feared when he was appointed special envoy to the poisoned chalice of Afpak. Not for nothing did he earn the sobriquet of the Bulldozer while knocking Balkan heads together to bring an end to the Bosnian war. Impatience will not solve ...

KABUL (AFP) - The top UN envoy to Afghanistan strongly opposes President Hamid Karzais choice of a warlord and alleged rights abuser as running mate for August elections, a Western diplomat said Monday. International diplomats in Kabul have alleged that Mohammad Qasim Fahim was involved in criminal ...

With less than a week left before candidates must register for Afghanistan's presidential election, opposition forces remain so divided and appear so confused that the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, is looking more and more like a winner as he heads to Washington for a summit with President Obama and ...

An Afghan presidential contender has criticized President Hamid Karzai's call for the election to be brought forward from August to April, saying the earlier date would not give other candidates time to campaign. Karzai issued a decree on Saturday saying the presidential election should be held ...

The second-in-command of the Al-Qaeda terror network, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, said in a new internet video posted Thursday that Afghanistan's attempt to negotiate with the Taliban showed weakness. The one hour, 20 minute video, posted on jihadist forums on November 27 and titled "Al-Azhar - The Lions' ...

KABUL (AFP) - Former Taliban leaders said Wednesday they shared a meal with President Hamid Karzai's brother and other government officials in Saudi Arabia last month but stressed the meeting did not amount to peace talks. The disclosure came after media reports citing various officials that ...

When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss. Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed ...