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Afghan President Delays Parliament for a Month

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai delayed parliament's opening session by one month Wednesday so that a controversial tribunal he has backed can continue its investigation into election fraud. The move throws further uncertainty on the willingness of Karzai's government to follow its own laws. The...

Obama in Afghanistan: Thanks to WikiLeaks, Everyone's Got Some Explaining to Do

(Dec. 3) -- This could be awkward. One day after publications such as The New York Times and The Guardian published stories on widespread corruption in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan for a quick visit with American troops and a planned meeting with President Hamid...

Karzai Appoints Peace Panel for Talks With Taliban

(Sept. 29) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has named 70 former warlords, tribal elders and suspected drug barons to a peace council tasked with trying to lure the Taliban into peace talks. But human rights groups immediately decried some of the nominees as part of the problem, saying many of them are too close to the...

Opinion: What I Saw at Afghanistan's Elections

(Sept. 22) -- We arrived at the polling center in the northern Afghan province of Samengan via a road that winded its way around simple mud-brick houses, over narrow bridges of indeterminate effectiveness and on a surface so deeply pockmarked and uneven it barely qualified as a road. I was in Afghanistan with the...

Afghanistan's 2010 Parliamentary Elections: Baby Steps or Backward Steps?

(Sept. 20) -- Afghanistan's parliamentary elections are over and the verdicts are in: The voting was both a tremendous success (just ask the government) and something of an abject failure (just ask the media). As we all know by now, the elections didn't run at Swiss efficiency levels, but how bad is bad, really, when...