The constitution provides for an elected President and National Assembly.
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Because of his prominence in Pashto literature and poetry, he was officially requested by the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai to write the Afghan National Anthem in late 2006.
Leaders sometimes wear a karakul hat, like President Hamid Karzai and former monarchs of Afghanistan.
One of his sisters was married to Mir Akbar Khyber (a leading leftist ideologue whose murder in 1978 started the Saur Revolution); another sister was married to Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (who would later become President of Afghanistan).
William B. Wood presented his credentials on April 16, 2007, to the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and was received as the U.S. Ambassador to that nation, replacing the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann.
Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909–1978), first President of Afghanistan, from 1973, until his assassination in 1978
Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan politician, president of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1979