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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


Afghans vote in landmark poll, undeterred by threats

Afghans vote in landmark poll, undeterred by threats

by | Apr 5, 2014 | World

Kabul and Kandahar, Reuters—Voting was largely peaceful in Afghanistan’s presidential election on Saturday, with only isolated attacks on polling stations as a country racked by decades of chaos embarked on its first-ever democratic transfer of power. A roadside...