| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Sayed Salahuddin |
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| KABUL (Reuters) - Most Afghans support President Hamid Karzai's bid to have long-term security ties with the United States, the president's spokesman said after a gathering of more than 1,000 chiefs and regional leaders on Sunday. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Associated Press |
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| Afghan, British and Iranian officials held talks in Kabul on Sunday on combating Afghanistan's illegal narcotics industry, the Afghan government said, the first of a planned series of meetings on countering the world's largest drug economy. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Reuters |
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| KABUL - President Hamid Karzai has summoned hundreds of representatives from across Afghanistan for talks that will include the sensitive issue of a strategic partnership with the United States, a presidential official said on Thursday. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Afghanistan Coalition Press Information Center (Public Affairs) |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan National Army and U.S. soldiers killed an estimated 20 insurgents during a prolonged firefight at an isolated compound just north of Kandahar on May 4. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Saeed Zabuli - Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KANDAHAR CITY - The reconstruction of the 78 kilometers long Kandahar-Arghistan road - costing more than $1 million - started on Sunday. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: STEPHEN GRAHAM |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An Afghan official assigned to make peace with Taliban-led militants said Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and renegade former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar could be accepted back into Afghan society if they give up the fight. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Salima Ghafari |
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| Parties band together to field a slate of candidates in the upcoming election
A leading politician who ran against Hamed Karzai in last year's presidential election has announced the creation of a new coalition that hopes to win a majority of seats in the national legislature this autumn, and create a parliamentary form of government.
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: BBC News |
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| Afghan President Hamid Karzai has won national backing for his call to form a long-term strategic relationship with the US, officials say. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Associated Press |
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| A U.N. engineer from Myanmar was among three killed when a suicide attacker walked into a Kabul Internet cafe and blew himself up, officials said Sunday, in the first fatal attack on a U.N. staffer in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Xinhua |
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| KABUL, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Former Afghan Prime Minister and leader of the radical group Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan or Islamic Party of Afghanistan has termed the reported surrender of his commanders as US propaganda and rejected it, a Kabul-based daily reported on Sunday. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: IRNA |
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| Two persons were killed when a bomb in their car exploded in Pakistan North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, correspondents in the area said. |
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| May 08, 2005 |
| By: Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition |
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| Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part series on reconstruction in Afghanistan.
KOHSAN, Afghanistan - The tea they serve is piping hot, the conversation warm and jovial. Young men with connections squeeze into the classroom, angling for a place to sit or stand, though they're quick to yield to elders who arrive for this meeting with the Americans.
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