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Karzai Oath
Karzai Oath
AFP
months. He embraced outgoing president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who held the job mostly in a nominal capacity for nearly a decade. NARROWING RIVALRIES: Dressed in a green and purple striped Uzbek robe and wearing a lambskin cap, Mr Karzai shared the stage with Tajik officials of the Northern Alliance, leaders of the ethnic Hazaras descended from Genghis Khan and Uzbek warlord Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum. Former foes and longtime Continued oh Page 13