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Hamid Karzai

president of Afghanistan
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December 24, 1957, Kandahār, Afghanistan (age 67, born on this day)
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president (2004-2014), Afghanistan

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 political science. During the Afghan War (1978–92) he worked with the mujahideen, who sought to overthrow the Soviet-backed government, and often traveled to the United ...(100 of 1045 words)

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