Supporters of President Karzai are preparing to rig voting in next
week’s presidential elections in unstable parts of Afghanistan’s south
as Taleban violence threatens to intimidate voters and hit turnout in
his traditional support base.
The Times has talked to several witnesses whose reports will
bolster suspicions within the international community that there will
be electoral fraud across the south, some of it allegedly orchestrated
by Mr Karzai’s half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai.
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