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16 Feb 2012, 12:55 pm
News 2 Boys With Suicide Vests Are Arrested in Afghanistan, New York Times, February 12, 2012 This past weekend, two 12-year-old boys equipped with suicide vests were arrested, less than one year after President Hamid Karzai had pardoned one of the two [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 9:00 am
Women - A law recently passed by both houses of Afghanistan's Parliament and signed by President Hamid Karzai but not yet published is reported to re-introduce restrictions on women's rights that were in place previously under the Taliban.... [read post]
11 Dec 2006, 6:59 am
The Taliban regime fell and Hamid Karzai's puppet regime, which included... [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 4:34 am
Taliban, Karzai in Talks to End War: The Washington Post reports that Afghan President Hamid Katzai and Taliban representatives have begun holding secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war. [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 10:54 am
The decree was issued in February by President Hamid Karzai [official profile; JURIST news archive] following the disputed 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 2:23 pm
Over much protest, last week Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed into law a bill codifying existing Islamic law which creates significant restrictions upon the times that women can leave their homes in Afghanistan. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 7:00 am
The Wall Street Journal editorial page tells us to stop complaining about the election fraud (which added about a million votes to Karzai's total), and to stop questioning Karzai's "legitimacy" as President:Afghanistan's messy election ended yesterday with President Hamid Karzai securing another five-year term after his challenger withdrew and a run-off was called off....Mr. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 10:46 am
[JURIST] Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official profile, JURIST news archive] on Wednesday announced a one-month postponement in the seating of the country's new parliament, following a request by a high court judicial tribunal asking for more time to look into allegations of fraud surrounding last September's parliamentary elections [IEC backgrounder]. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 8:02 am
[JURIST] Afghanistan's five-judge panel set up last week to investigate election complaints said Monday that it will issue rulings in time for President Hamid Karzai [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] to seat the parliament as scheduled on January 20. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 6:36 am
The news today so far: Ford makes a billion in profits and Hamid Karzai has been declared the elected President in Afghanistan following his opponent's withdrawal from the race. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 9:04 am
That report was subsequently corrected on Twitter by Aimal Faizi, chief spokesperson for President Hamid Karzai. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 3:06 am
The Afghan Constitution guarantees equal rights for all, yet President Hamid Karzai recently signed a law passed by Parliament that severely restricts Shi'ite women's rights. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 6:37 pm
As Afghan President Hamid Karzai opened the Afghani-Pakistani jirga (tribal council) for peace Thursday, tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims marched peacefully through Baghdad to a shrine honoring an 8th-century imam, with little of the violence that has marred past celebrations. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 3:01 am
Recent news has focused on Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's incumbent President, who acceded to a November 7 runoff to decide an election contest tainted by charges of massive vote fraud in the 1st round, held back in August. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 8:31 am
As Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani compete to replace Hamid Karzai as president of Afghanistan, and the Independent Election Commission continues to count votes from round two of the voting, the United States sees Afghanistan as a raging fire that very soon could get worse. [read post]
12 Apr 2005, 4:21 am
The case was the first major corruption case under the new government, since President Hamid Karzai [Wikipedia profile] made fighting corruption one of his top priorities after being elected in October 2004. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 1:06 am
[JURIST] Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai [official website; BBC profile] is concerned about the imposition of the death penalty against journalism student Sayad Parwez Kambaksh but will not intervene in the case pending Kambaksh's appeal, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday. [read post]
11 Jul 2009, 8:07 pm
7-12-2009 Afghanistan:This week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed legislation which among other things, allows Afghan men to starve their wives if they refuse to have sex with them. [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 9:05 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday encouraged [press release] Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai [official website] to refuse to sign a law passed by parliament that they say would deny women protection from domestic violence and forced marriage. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 3:59 am
[JURIST] Afghan President Hamid Karzai [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] said Monday that a law which severely limits the rights of married Shi'ite women in Afghanistan would not be enforced until the country's Ministry of Justice [official website] has complete reviewing the law. [read post]
