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Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures with his right hand while speaking, wearing a traditional cap and striped cloak at an event. Hamid Karzai President Barack Obama sits at a conference table between Afghan President Hamid Karzai, wearing a striped shawl, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in the White House Cabinet Room.
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Hamid Karzai

president of Afghanistan
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Hamid Karzai (born December 24, 1957, Kandahār, Afghanistan) is an Afghan politician who was the first elected president of Afghanistan (2004–14). Karzai was the son of the chief of the Popalzai Pashtuns, and both his father and grandfather served in the government of Mohammad Zahir Shah. Under the Soviet-imposed regime in the 1980s, the Karzai family left Afghanistan and settled in Pakistan. Karzai attended Himachal Pradesh University in India, earning a master’s degree (1982) in...

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