Dinner Date With The Presidents

In fact Hamid Karzai's father was the tribal Kahn or chief when in 1999, the Taleban assassinated him leaving Hamid Karzai with a score to settle. Then the host, President George W Bush. Not a tribal leader maybe but as close to royalty as you can get in the American republic: the son of a president, the grandson of a US senator, the brother of a state governor. And the third guest - Pervez Musharraf - not so much new money as new power. A child refugee and the son of an accountant, he elbowed his way to the top without the help of family connections - he rose through the ranks of the meritocratic army and then mounted a coup grabbing power for himself. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5392876.stm

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