ARGHHH!!!

I just wrote up a WHOLE entry only for it to get deleted! Will write again later after I get over it!

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Entekhabaat 88*

(* Entekhabaat is the Dari and Pashto word for ‘Elections’ and 88 is the Afghan calender year)
Okay,
Only 18 minutes left before I finish work, let’s see how much I can type.
I’m done with my work work if that makes sense, and now I’m just kicking back waiting to go home. Nothing new is happening, [...]

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Afghanistan’s Elections

Update: Three unknown candidates have been kicked out by the ECC. The competition continues between the three biggies – Karzai, Ghani and Abdullah!
Campaigning begins tomorrow…

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A new beginning

Ashraf Ghani, offering ‘a new beginning’ for Afghanistan
AFP
By Sardar AHMAD
June 13, 2009
KABUL
Ashraf Ghani built an impressive international career during many years of exile and now he wants Afghanistan’s top job, emerging as one of President Hamid Karzai’s toughest rivals.
Ghani, whose campaign is billed “A New Beginning”, says he has a moral obligation to stand in [...]

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So you think you’re Afghan?

You were born in Afghanistan, raised in the west, considered yourself  ‘Afghan’ all your life. You decide to come to ‘Kabuljan’ for a holiday. You hang around, dressed in your peraan tomban thinking you fit in and that these people don’t know you’re from ‘khaarij’.
Think again…
Body of abducted Afghan-American found in well
Pajhwok
By Frozan Rahmani
06/02/2009
KABUL
The dead [...]

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Afghanistan in Pictures II

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Moisturising my blog…

So, I was told that my blog is ‘drying up’. And now here I am to water/moisturise it.  Kabul has been very relaxed lately. It’s great, but I can’t help the itty bitty pessimism in me and think that a big explosion is bound to happen anytime soon. Especially with the upcoming elections just around [...]

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