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Karzai Combats Chaos.(Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai)(Brief Article)(Interview)
When Afghanistan's Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly, voted for Hamid Karzai as president two weeks ago, many Afghans complained of strong- arming and backroom deals. In the coming months Karzai is likely to get many more complaints as he implements his plans to unite the country. Karzai elaborated on some of his goals in an interview with NEWSWEEK's Babak Dehghanpisheh and other journalists:
Many Afghans were upset by the presence of warlords at the recent Loya Jirga. Is your policy to include this group in government?
I plan to deliver to the Afghan people what they ask of me. They want a central government, and that authority has to serve them. I'm not here to promote regionalism. I'm not here to promote warlordism. I will not do that.
Will the armed groups controlled by warlords be integrated into the national Army?
There cannot be separate armed groups. I'm asking the international community to deliver their promises on that.
So they will ...
- Loya jirga delayed until Tuesday.
- News wire article from: United Press International June 10, 2002 700+ words
...logistically prepared." The loya jirga, which is to set up the next...than 1,500 delegates to the loya jirga had gathered outside Kabul to...backed interim regime headed by Hamid Karzai. The loya jirga was expected to endorse Karzai...
- Tenuous Loya jirga may be last, best chance for stable Afghan nation.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Moritsugu, Ken June 7, 2002 700+ words
...hope that the June 10-16 Loya jirga, an assembly of 1,501 delegates...Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai, gives the Loya jirga an 80 percent chance of success...a terrorist incident, the Loya jirga still faces two major, intertwined...
- Tenuous Loya jirga may be last, best chance for stable Afghanistan.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Moritsugu, Ken June 8, 2002 700+ words
...desperately hope the June 10-16 Loya jirga, an assembly of 1,501 delegates...Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai, gives the Loya jirga an 80 percent chance of success...Polytechnic Institute where the Loya jirga will meet to repair its war...
- A scramble; Afghanistan.(Afghanistan's loya jirga)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 15, 2002 700+ words
...jirga or a fix? The loya jirga convenes at last, to...to participate in the loya jirga, supposed to elect a...government to replace Hamid Karzai's interim administration...king formally opened the loya jirga one day late on June...
- Loya jirga approaches as warlords take seat at table despite ban.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 7, 2002 700+ words
...participating in the loya jirga, supporters of Abdul...Kabul in advance of the loya jirga are seeking top jobs...administration of interim leader Hamid Karzai, whose term in power...be excluded from the loya jirga under provisions disqualifying...
- Afghans put off key decisions: The loya jirga winds down without settling how a...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 18, 2002 700+ words
...newly elected head of state, Hamid Karzai, moved Monday to end the...national grand assembly, or loya jirga, which had convened a week...suggesting that the 1,600 loya jirga members from across the nation...days of deliberation, the loya jirga managed to agree on only ...
- Afghans struggle for autonomy under `loya jirga' grand council.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Raghavan, Sudarsan March 20, 2002 700+ words
...commission setting up the loya jirga, as they sat in their...the integrity of the loya jirga, which has until June...cabinet of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. That transitional body...where candidates for the loya jirga will be elected by secret...
- Loya jirga could become a sham; Slayings, arrests and absence of voters arouse...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 29, 2002 700+ words
...Taliban regime. This loya jirga - scheduled June 10...government officials or even loya jirga officials - seems to...government [of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai] in power," said a...information about the loya jirga. The mayor in the central...
