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It is 10 years since Hamid Karzai was first appointed as interim President of Afghanistan.
But what was his background and how did he come to be the leader of the war-torn country?
One of the President's old friends talks to Witness.
(Image: Hamid Karzai. Credit: AP / Brennan Linsley)
By BBC World Service4.3
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It is 10 years since Hamid Karzai was first appointed as interim President of Afghanistan.
But what was his background and how did he come to be the leader of the war-torn country?
One of the President's old friends talks to Witness.
(Image: Hamid Karzai. Credit: AP / Brennan Linsley)

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