Karzai and Obama to talk for first time since inauguration

Presidents Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama spoke on the phone for the first time, exactly four weeks after Obama’s inauguration, Karzai’s office said today.

The two presidents spoke about security issues and Afghanistan’s presidential elections in August, Karzai’s office said. Obama called the Afghan leader Tuesday, the same day Obama announced he was deploying an additional 17,000 US forces to Afghanistan to bolster the 33,000 already in the country.