AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai vowed yesterday that his new government would eradicate corruption and unite the country after months of political chaos as he offered an olive branch to Taliban insurgents.

PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai registered as a candidate for Afghanistan’s August presidential election yesterday and selected a powerful warlord and former top political leader as his new vice-presidential running mate.

President Hamid Karzai has registered as a candidate for Afghanistan’s August presidential election.

MORE than 20,000 Afghans gathered in Kabul yesterday to remember Northern Alliance military commander Ahmad Shah Masood, slain by al-Qaida operatives two days before the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.