KABUL (Pajhwok Afghan News) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scheduled to head to France on Sunday on a four-day visit as part of his campaign to muster foreign support for his strife-torn country after the Sept 18 legislative elections marking culmination of the Bonn process.
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By Mike Weisbart
Korea Times - For Ghulam Sakhi Noorzad, returning to Afghanistan last year after nearly two decades overseas was a bittersweet experience. The joy he felt in returning to the city he led as mayor for five years in the 1970s was tempered by Kabul's horrendous conditions.
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KABUL (Xinhuanet) - Taliban militias who failed to derail the landmark Sept. 18 legislative polls have intensified their attacks in the post-election nation as in the latest spate of violence they targeted a Kabul military training center killing nine persons on the spot Wednesday, Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi confirmed Thursday.
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KABUL (IRIN) - After almost three decades of conflict and violence, Afghanistan marked its entry back to a civil and lawful rule last October when Hamid Karzai was elected president with a 55 percent majority in a direct poll held across the country. Eleven months on, on Sunday another historical milestone was reached when the country held its parliamentary and provincial council elections, under an Afghan-UN Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB), which also administered last year's presidential polls.
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Scotsman.com - Defence Secretary John Reid arrived in Afghanistan and was due to meet with President Hamid Karzai and visit British troops.
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KABUL (Pajhwok Afghan News) - A 14-party amalgam, seen as a potential opposition alliance in the new Afghan parliament, Thursday questioned the voter turnout given by the joint UN-Afghan poll panel and said the actual number of votes cast in the September 18 elections was much lower.
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By S. Mudassir Ali Shah & Borhan Younus
KABUL (Pajhwok Afghan News) - Afghanistan and Pakistan Thursday renewed their resolve to push ahead with their joint campaign against the menace of terrorism, which posed a grave threat to both the countries.
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South Asia Tribune - General Pervez Musharraf has complained that Washington abandoned Pakistan after the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and has established strategic alliance with India.
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HERAT (AFP) - An American supervisor at a security firm shot dead his Afghan interpreter apparently after a disagreement, police said.
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IANS - Initial vote count trends in Afghanistan's parliamentary polls indicate trouble for incumbent President Hamid Karzai once the house is constituted in December.
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Der Spiegel - Germany's parliament on Wednesday voted to extend and enlarge the Bundeswehr's mission in Afghanistan. It's a move that might gain Germany some international respect, but it will put even more German soldiers in danger. Will it make Afghanistan any safer?
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BBC - Afghan authorities are trying to identify the suicide bomber who killed at least 12 people and injured 36 others outside an army base in Kabul.
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BBC - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accepted the resignation of his interior minister. Ali Ahmad Jalali said he had resigned to pursue his academic career and on Wednesday denied any rift with President Karzai.
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By Shirazuddin Siddiqi
BBC - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is facing the loss of one his most respected colleagues, interior minister Ali Ahmad Jalali. On Tuesday Mr Jalali said he was resigning, amid reports of disagreements with the president over the appointment of warlords to provincial posts.
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SYDNEY (The News) - The Australian government said on Wednesday it would not reopen one of its highest profile immigration cases in which a family of asylum-seekers was deported to Pakistan, despite new evidence the mother and children are Afghan citizens.
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