How to pronounce “karzai” in English

Hamid Karzai, looking wan, pushed through the tangle of bodies and stood at the edge of the grave.

going after President Karzai's brother, trying to uncover his business dealings, or the fights between the US Ambassador and President

And so President Karzai's criticism of United States were the Americans are attacking Afghan homes,

This takes place when Ahmed Wali Karzai has just been killed.

Why did the US pick Karzai?

for two months and cover an election for Hamid Karzai's second term.

I think the current president of Afghanistan and President Karzai as well, they made overtures to the Taliban.

because they didn't want to talk to President Karzai.

over how much support the US gave to the Karzais and the politics that came out of that?

The president's father, Abdul Ahad Karzai, a former parliament member and leader of the Popalzais, was buried there, as was his grandfather,

Despite all of the problems that many of us had with President Karzai, that was his primary goal.

Eikenberry wrote that President Hamid Karzai’s not an adequate strategic partner, that sending additional forces will delay the day when Afghans will take over

Whether it was we were trying to figure out how to deal with the warlords and there was Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was the president's half-brother,

to a grove of eucalyptus trees ringed by a white metal fence topped with arrow shaped spikes that surrounded the Karzai family cemetery.

We had a lot of difficulties, both with President Karzai-- because he didn't want us talking to the Taliban-- and we had problems with the Taliban,

His father and his grandfather were all buried there, dozens of Karzais.

Across the cemetery grounds, dozens of humble headstones marked the graves of lesser Karzais.

So the book that I wrote is basically a story of those other wars and how wherever you looked, there was a Karzai in the middle of them.

And when we were trying to figure out how to make this government into more like a Western democracy, Mahmoud Karzai, the other brother,

So the book goes on from there, tracing, basically, the election in 2009 that I first observed and the final election, when Karzai left power,

And that, I think, ended up undermining their relations with the Karzai government in a huge way,