KABUL -- Under intense pressure to fix his corrupt government, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was seeking to strike a balance in his second inaugural speech today: answer international demands for reform while appeasing his political allies who returned him to power.
An official familiar with a draft of the speech said that Karzai would not pepper his address with rhetoric criticizing the international community. Still, he is likely to wag his finger at foreign donors for allowing millions of dollars to be skimmed from aid contracts.
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