Hamid Karzai sworn in as Afghan president

KABUL: Hamid Karzai has been sworn in for a second five-year term as Afghanistan’’s president, live television showed Thursday. Karzai, who was named president after a fraud-tainted election on August 20, took the oath of office at the presidential palace in central Kabul in front of 800 guests, including 300 foreign dignitaries. Guests, including US Secretary of States Hillary Clinton, sat in the cavernous palace as an honour guard of Afghanistan’’s security forces stood to attention outside.