What is Hamid Karzai?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Hamid Karzai<br>{{small|حامد کرزی}} |image = Hamid Karzai in August 2009 cropped.jpg{{!}}border |office = [[President of Afghanistan]] |vicepresident = [[Karim Khalili]]<br>[[Mohammed Fahim]]<br>[[Yunus Qanuni]] |term_start = 22 December 2001 |term_end = 29 September 2014<br>{{small|Acting: 22 December 2001 – 7 December 2004}} |predecessor = [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] |successor = [[Ashraf Ghani]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|12|24|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Kandahar]], [[Kingdom of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] |spouse = [[Zeenat Karzai|Zeenat Quraishi]] {{small|(1999–present)}} |children = Mirwais<br>Malalai<br>Howsi |alma_mater = [[Himachal Pradesh University]] }} '''Hamid Karzai''' ({{lang-ps|حامد کرزی}}, {{transl|ar|''Hāmid Karzay''}}; born 24 December 1957<ref name=bio/>) is a former [[President]] of [[Afghanistan]]. He served from 22 December 2001 to 29 September 2014. He was the first [[democracy|democratically]] [[election|elected]] leader of the [[country]]. He is ethnic [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] from [[Kandahar]] and can speak several different language, including [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Urdu]] and his native [[Pashto]] [[language]]. He was educated in Afghanistan and [[India]]. He lived in [[Pakistan]] before becoming popular in late 2001. He has many family members and relatives living in the United States. == References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/hamid-karzai-537356|title=Hamid Karzai Biography|publisher=Biography.com|accessdate=7 February 2013|archive-date=27 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127085919/http://www.biography.com/people/hamid-karzai-537356|url-status=dead}}</ref> }} {{commons category}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Karzai, Hamid}} [[Category:1957 births]] [[Ca