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Hamid Karzai

b. 1957 · 20th century

Hamid Karzai is a Pashtun politician of the Popalzai tribe who led Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. The Bonn Agreement made him head of the interim administration, and he was elected President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 2004 and 2009, serving until 2014. His government depended on international forces and faced a renewed Taliban insurgency and widespread corruption.

Hamid Karzai
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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