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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2019, file photo, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Karzai said Friday, April 19, 2019 that peace in his homeland, ravaged by more than 17 years of war, will not be possible until Afghans from all sectors of society sit together and negotiate _ including the Taliban.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Ex-president: Peace possible when all Afghans sit together

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai adjusts his hat during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. Karzai expressed fears that a previously unscheduled meeting between the Taliban and the United States in Pakistan on Monday risks engulfing Afghanistan into regional rivalries, as its neighbors and powerful Persian Gulf states jockey for influence in a post- U.S. Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

AP Interview: Karzai worries Pakistan talks risk peace pact

AP Interview: Karzai welcomes Gitmo 5 into peace discussion

Hamid Karzai, former Afghan president: Massive U.S. bomb was an ‘atrocity’

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Afghanistan’s Ghani: Islam’s leaders must speak out on terror threat

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a graduation ceremony inspects guards of honor at a military academy, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan President Ghani seeks ‘new chapter’ in U.S. relations with D.C. visit

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, a onetime anthropologist and former World Bank executive, will meet with President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry to discuss possible changes to the timetable to withdraw the bulk of American troops. (Associated Press)

Ghani to focus on U.S. troop pullout in Obama meeting

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (right) is courting a longer stay by U.S. troops, whom he thanks for their sacrifices. Last month, he stood shoulder to shoulder at the presidential palace with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. (Associated Press)

Iraq, Afghanistan become U.S. war allies as friends replace resentful leaders

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. The U.S. military in Afghanistan has handed over three Pakistani detainees to Islamabad, including one who Pakistani intelligence officers said is a senior Taliban commander long wanted by the Pakistani government. The transfer of Mehsud, a close confidante of the former head of the Pakistani Taliban, underlines the improving relations between the U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

U.S. hands over senior Taliban commander to Pakistan

U.S. Special Operations forces engage in a joint operation with Afghan National Army soldiers targeting insurgents operating in Afghanistan's Farah province, Oct. 29, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Afghanistan lifts night raid ban against Taliban

New Afghan president sworn in after disputed vote

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, left, is sworn in by Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi, during his inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Ghani Ahmadzai He replaces Hamid Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president sworn in, paving way for U.S. pact

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai looks back during a ceremony for signing a power-sharing deal between two presidential candidates, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. Afghanistan's two presidential candidates signed a power-sharing deal Sunday, capped with a hug and a handshake, three months after a disputed runoff that threatened to plunge the country into turmoil and complicate the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Hamid Karzai takes parting shot: U.S. wanted war for ‘own interests’

New Afghan president, but vote totals kept secret

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks across the presidential palace grounds with Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry chief of protocol Ambassador Hamid Siddiq, left, and Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani on his way to a meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 12, 2014. Kerry visited Afghanistan in hopes of diffusing a crisis over the runoff presidential election to find a successor for outgoing President Karzai. (AP Photo/Jim Boug, Pool)

Kerry: Both Afghan presidential candidates agree to 100 percent ballot audit

Photos

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai acknowledges applause on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002 during President Bush's State of the Union address. Back row, from left are, Manassas, Va. firefighter William Best, Olympian skeleton competitor James Shea and Sadoozai Panah, managing director for Women's Development for Afghanistan, Front row, from left are, Shannon Spann, widow of CIA agent Michael Spann, Karzai and first lady Laura Bush. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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"If the election goes to the second round we are ready to go to the second round, and if we go to the second round I am confident that we will win," he told reporters on Sunday.

Afghan candidates promise to respect results →

Abdullah was Karzai's main rival in 2009, but he dropped out before a runoff vote because he said he did not believe it would be fair.

Afghan candidates promise to respect results →

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