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Hamid Karzai

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Hamid Karzai

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Also known as Karzai, Hamid Abd al-Ahad Karzai

President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014

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Hamid Karzai is a male person born in 1957. He is associated with the United States and has been described in genres including avant-garde jazz, experimental rock, free improvisation, free jazz, and jazz. He has 681,921 social media followers.

He is an author with six works listed in the Open Library. These include *Bayānīyah-ʼi aʻlām-i khaṭṭ-i mashī-i Ḥāmid Karzay*, *kāndīd-i riyāsat-i jumhūrī*, *Majmūʻahʹyī az sukhanrānīʹhā-yi rādyūyī-i āqā-yi Ḥāmid Karzay*, *raʼīs-i Dawlat-i Intiqālī-i Islāmī-i Afghānistān*, *Da Afghānistān da Islāmī Jumhūriyat da Jumhūr Raʼīs Ḥāmid Karzay rādyūyī waynāwe*, *Da Afghānistān da Islāmī Dawlat Jumhūr Raʼīs Ḥāmid Karzay rāḍiyūyī waynāwe*, and *Zmuẓh murām zmuẓh khalk*. Crossref lists five works by him.

A quote attributed to him is, "Politics without morality is close to sin." He is referenced by 1,087 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1957
Works
6

Top works

  • Bayānīyah-ʼi aʻlām-i khaṭṭ-i mashī-i Ḥāmid Karzay, kāndīd-i riyāsat-i jumhūrī
  • Majmūʻahʹyī az sukhanrānīʹhā-yi rādyūyī-i āqā-yi Ḥāmid Karzay, raʼīs-i Dawlat-i Intiqālī-i Islāmī-i Afghānistān
  • Da Afghānistān da Islāmī Jumhūriyat da Jumhūr Raʼīs Ḥāmid Karzay rādyūyī waynāwe
  • Da Afghānistān da Islāmī Dawlat Jumhūr Raʼīs Ḥāmid Karzay rāḍiyūyī waynāwe
  • Zmuẓh murām zmuẓh khalk

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1955-08-03
avant-garde jazzexperimental rockfree improvisationfree jazzjazzjazz-rock

Discography

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,984x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,998x

  3. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,248x

  4. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,016x

  5. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2021 · cited 6,869x

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Quotes

  • “Politics without morality is close to sin.”
  • “There is no doubt that people are angry. When a family is hit by a bomb and I am the president here with the responsibility -- when a suicide bomb takes places and murders the people of this nation -- I am the president of this country and it is my responsibility to bring peace to these people.”
  • “My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.”
  • “On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.”
  • “On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift — if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)”
  • “When you see on the news or read in the newspaper that so many people were killed in places far away, do not let these numbers become mere abstractions to you. These are real people, like you and I. They are families, friends; they have pain, they have grief.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Hamid Karzai (born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the seventh president of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, including as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. He also served as chairman of the Afghan Interim Administration from 2001 to 2002.

Born in Kandahar, Karzai graduated from Habibia High School in Kabul and later received a master's degree from Himachal Pradesh University, Summerhill, Shimla, India, in the 1980s. He moved to Pakistan where he was active as a fundraiser for the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) and its aftermath. He briefly served as Deputy Foreign Minister in the Islamic State of Afghanistan government. In July 1999, Karzai's father was assassinated and Karzai succeeded him as head of the Popalzai tribe. In October 2001 the United States invasion of Afghanistan began and Karzai led the Pashtun tribes in and around Kandahar in an uprising against the Taliban; he became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001. During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany, Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six-month term as chairman of the Interim Administration.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hamid Karzai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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