Hamid Karzai

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Hamid Karzai is an Afghan politician who served as the country’s first post-Taliban president, leading Afghanistan through the early years of the U.S.-led intervention and subsequent reconstruction efforts.

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Hamid Karzai (interim president) 1
Karzai 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf head of state
human
politician
president
advocatedFor Loya Jirga-based constitutional process in Afghanistan
appointedBy Afghan Interim Authority (Bonn Agreement framework)
cameToPowerFollowing War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
surface form: United States-led invasion of Afghanistan (2001)
countryOfCitizenship Afghanistan
dateOfBirth 1957-12-24
educatedAt Himachal Pradesh University
Simla (St. Xavier’s School / related institutions)
electedIn 2004 Afghan presidential election
endTime 2014-09-29
ethnicGroup Pashtuns
surface form: Pashtun
familyName Hamid Karzai self-linksurface differs
surface form: Karzai
fieldOfWork politics
givenName Hamed
surface form: Hamid
governedDuring War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
surface form: War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)
hasHonorificPrefix His Excellency
headOfGovernmentOf Afghanistan
languageSpoken Dari
English
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
memberOf Pashtuns
surface form: Popalzai tribe
name Hamid Karzai self-link
nativeLanguage Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
notableFor close cooperation with the United States in the early years of the intervention
later criticism of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan
leading Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001
overseeing early reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan
numberOfChildren 3
office President of Afghanistan
oversaw adoption of the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan
participatedIn Bonn Conference on Afghanistan (2001)
placeOfBirth Afghanistan
Kandahar
politicalAlignment increasingly critical of NATO presence (later presidency)
pro-Western (early presidency)
positionHeld President of Afghanistan
predecessor Burhanuddin Rabbani
reElectedIn 2009 Afghan presidential election
religion Islam
religiousDenomination Sunni Islam
residence Kabul
sexOrGender male
spouse Zeenat Karzai
startTime 2001-12-22
successor Ashraf Ghani
wasInterimLeaderOf Afghanistan

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Hamid Karzai familyName Hamid Karzai self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Karzai
this entity surface form: Hamid Karzai (interim president)
Fall of Kabul (2021) keyFigure Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai name Hamid Karzai self-link
Ashraf Ghani precededBy Hamid Karzai