HAMID KARZAI, PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN
(....) After obtaining his Master's degree in India he moved to neighboring Pakistan to work as a fundraiser for the anti-communist
mujahideen during the 1980s
Soviet war in Afghanistan.
[8] The Mujahideens were backed by the United States, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Karzai was a secret contact for the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the time.
[9] While Karzai remained in Pakistan during the Soviet intervention,
[10] his siblings emigrated to the United States.
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