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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Karzai promises Afghan voters a brighter future AFP - Sunday, August 2 KAYAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan (AFP) - - President Hamid Karzai held his first campaign rally outside of the capital in a small village on Saturday, promising a welcoming crowd a brighter future if elected this month. ADVERTISEMENT The leading contender in the August 20 elections addressed the boisterous rally of several thousand people alongside the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Shia sect that dominates this area, who told his followers to choose Karzai. Villagers held up placards of the president and shouted slogans such as "Karzai will succeed" at the gathering six hours' drive from Kabul, at the end of a rocky road in the relatively stable northern province of Baghlan. The leader of Afghanistan since the extremist Taliban regime was ousted in late 2001 is campaigning to win a second term in office. In this first official rally outside of Kabul, he outlined his three-pronged platform of peace, development and solid ties with the foreign powers propping up the war-ruined country. "Terrorism is still bothering us, is still destroying the country....for us the first thing is peace and national unity," he said, referring to a Taliban-led insurgency that has this year become its deadliest. He said his second priority was to improve Afghanistan's relations with the international community. "The third is development. We have built the roads and schools, the next thing is agriculture. We have to make dams to bring the water to the land and our electricity should be our own," he said. Construction of one of the least developed countries in the world has been hampered by the insurgency which has brought more than 100,000 international troops to Afghanistan. Nevertheless, gains have been made. Karzai said that since the fall of the Taliban, whose five-year rule followed a devastating and ethnically charged civil war, the country had come together. "The big achievement for us in the last seven years is Afghanistan. After 30 years of war and misfortune, we have become a real house, a place of Afghan people," he told the rally. "We have a better future, a developed future," he said, adding that in his vision: "Every house has to have a new vehicle and your children educated so you are satisfied and comfortable." Men, women and children -- all Ismailis -- started arriving in Kayan on Friday, crowding into a field wearing badges and flimsy baseball caps emblazoned with Karzai's face. Colourful posters of the waving president plastered the mud walls of adobe houses, and Afghan flags flew along the roadways. Most people, however, said it was Sayed Mansoor Naderi -- the local spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect headed by the Aga Khan -- that they had come to see. Naderi, standing alongside the president, told his followers: "I request my national and political allies, my brothers and sisters and others ... to support Hamid Karzai." It was a message that had already been enthusiastically received. "As the people of Sayed Mansoor Naderi, we come for him because we are his people, his supporters," said Saeed Mahmood Aga, a 67-year-old shopkeeper. "The people were asked to gather here. As he is supporting Karzai, we will offer support to him too," he told AFP. Karzai leads a field of 41 candidates for the election, the second-ever democratic vote in Afghanistan's turbulent history. Crucial to Karzai's lead is his ability to secure the backing of still-powerful strongmen from the country's war-filled past who bring with them large swathes of followers. Naderi, also the MP for this northern province of Baghlan, told reporters that he had decided to support Karzai because he believed he could unite the country's diverse and often warring ethnic and religious groups. He said no money was involved in the deal. "Afghanistan has been fighting a civil war for about 27 years or so... President Karzai has brought democracy in Afghanistan," he said, adding that he supported Karzai's plan to hold talks with the Taliban. "You cannot provide a solution to the problem by fighting. The only solution is by entering into some sort of agreement," he said. 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