The dilapidated soccer stadium, a onetime Taliban execution ground, rang today with excited shouts of "Karzai! Kar-ZAI!" The chants weren't a signal of support for Afghanistan's beleaguered president. Far from it. They were the raucous response to a shouted question -- "Who's the one who failed at governing?" -- from a speaker warming up the crowd for Hamid Karzai's principal rival, Abdullah Abdullah. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
This does more to survey the current political situation for Karzai than create a narrative of why his changes at winning another term are threatened now. A decent read ahead of Thursday's election, but not all that deep.
For Karzai, once the darling of the West and a beacon of hope for his people, it’s been a long, hard fall. Afghanistan’s first direct presidential vote, in ... More »
the story is an explanation of the problems pres. karzai has in his bid for reelection. while afghanistan's problems are implicit here, not enough is said explicitly about the difficulties any one would have attempting to govern. abdullah is mentioned as chief rival for the post, but not much information or lack of it about his call for change is discussed here.
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