Afghan tribal leaders join others calling election foul
Afghanistan’s latest election has been bogged down with complaints of fraud and intimidation. The latest voices to join the chorus of complaints are the tribal leaders in southern Afghanistan. These leaders say the governor of their district,
Delaga Bariz, was detained by aides to President Hamid Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, in order to keep him from endorsing Karzai’s top opponent, Abdullah Abdullah.
In addition, these leaders are saying that all 45 of the local polling sites were shut down and some 23,900 ballots were sent in to be counted—all for Karzai. “Not a single person in Shorabak District cast a ballot—not a single person,” Bariz told The New York Times.
And unfortunately the election dispute is hardly the only pressing problem in the country as terrorists are still gaining ground and staging major attacks. A bomb in Kabul on Wednesday killed 24, including a high ranking intelligence official.
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