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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamid Karzai began his first five-year term in 2004. After his second term ended in 2014, Ashraf Ghani was elected as the next Afghan president.

Detailed explanation-2: -The supreme leader of Afghanistan (Pashto: , romanized: Də Afġānistān Damshīr, Dari: , romanized: Rahbar-e Afghānistān), officially the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and also styled by his religious title Amir al-Mu’minin ( lit.

Detailed explanation-3: -Afghanistan is a totalitarian theocracy and emirate in which the Taliban Islamic Movement holds a monopoly on power. Dissent is not permitted, and politics are mostly limited to internal Taliban policy debates and power struggles.

Detailed explanation-4: -After a three-month audit process, which was supervised by the United Nations with financial support from the U.S. government, the Independent Election Commission announced Ghani as president after Ghani agreed to a national unity deal.