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Afghan voters wait outside a polling station in Jalalabad on April 5, 2014. Afghan voters went to the polls to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, braving Taliban threats in a landmark election held as US-led forces wind down their long intervention in the country. AFP PHOTO/NOORULLAH SHIRZADA
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TOPSHOTS An Afghan villager carries election materials over his shoulders as he hikes back to his village along a country road high in the mountains of Shutul District in northern Afghanistan on April 4, 2014. Afghans will vote on April 5 in the country’s third presidential election to choose a successor to Hamid Karzai, who […]
Opinion: Afghans Rise to the Challenge
Kabul—Today, after Kabul and most of the other major cities in Afghanistan turned into ghost towns over security concerns, Afghans are going to the polls to choose their next president. Despite the insecurity, it is hard to miss out on the opportunity to participate...Caption:
In this Saturday, February 8, 2014, file photo, Afghan presidential candidate Qayyum Karzai, incumbent President Hamid Karzai’s brother, talks during an election debate at the OneTV building in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
Qayyum Karzai quits Afghan presidential race
Kabul, AP—The Afghan president’s elder brother is dropping out of the April 5 presidential race and throwing his support behind the country’s former foreign minister, a campaign official said Wednesday. The official, who asked not to be named because he...Caption:
Afghan presidential candidates (L-R) Abdullah Abdullah, Qayum Karzai, Abdul Rahim Wardak, Zalmai Rassoul and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai participate in the first presidential election debate at a local TV channel studio in Kabul February 4, 2014. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
Afghanistan: The Men Who Would Be King
Kabul, Asharq Al-Awsat—One of the longest presidential election campaigns in the world is under way in Afghanistan. It precedes an election that is widely seen as being crucial to the nation’s future stability. Should it prove to be free and fair, it could be the...Caption:
In this file photo taken Monday, June 3, 2013, Afghan men offer funeral prayers in front of the bodies of seven civilians killed by a roadside bomb in the Alingar district of Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan’s war jumped by 34 percent in 2013 as the Taliban intensified armed attacks across the country and continued to lay thousands of roadside bombs, according to a U.N. report Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)