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2014-04-05 Afghanistan

[The Peninsula] The Taliban have launched a violent campaign to disrupt this weekend's presidential election in Afghanistan, but in a restive eastern corner of the country they are paying villagers to surrender their voting cards.

Residents in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, which lies on the border with Pakistain, said local Talibs have been offering voters 500 Pak rupees - the equivalent of just over $5 - to opt out of the election.

"At first we thought the Taliban were trying to trick us and wanted to find out who had voter cards, but later we found out that they were honest and paid money," said Ahmad Shah, a youth in a village just outside the city of Jalalabad. The Taliban did not respond to a request for comment.

Today's election will bring the first democratic transfer of power in war-torn Afghanistan and an end to the rule of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
, who has led the country since the ouster of a Taliban regime in late 2001. The Taliban have branded the election a Western-backed sham.

The Independent Election Commission has said at least 10 percent of polling stations will not be able to open due to the threat of violence, the majority of them in the east where the Death Eaters are most active.

"When the Taliban are in control and warn people not to vote, and instead pay money for your voter card, it's not a bad thing," Haji Khan Wali, another man in the village, where the Pak rupee is more commonly used than the local currency, the Afghani.

Posted by Fred 2014-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 More likely they want to duplicate the cards, and need a few to copy.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-04-05 06:36|| 2014-04-05 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The Taliban are correct. We all know voter cards and ID's are racist and tend to suppress the vote.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-05 06:38|| 2014-04-05 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Taliboomer in a Burqa at the voting center. Count on it

Posted by Frank G 2014-04-05 11:28|| 2014-04-05 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Taliboomer in a Burqa at the voting center. Count on it

Oh! Oh! Oh! Allah Clue? Ima good at this.

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-05 12:02|| 2014-04-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

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