(Blog Post) With only four days to go before the elections, I thought it might be useful to comment on how the opposition candidates' rallies went this past week. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
In the end, the rallies of Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani said less about what might happen on election day — I think we all have a pretty good idea about that — but revealed more about the aspirations of Kandahar’s young generation. Very little is written about this large section of society, but a repeat of the Karzai regime is not going to do much for them. The best they can hope for is to earn enough money to get out — to Kabul, to India, anywhere else. Aside from that small possibility, their future looks bleak.
