Purple fingers and sitting ducks: how to hold an election, Afghan style
Saturday 05 Apr 2014
I’m sitting here getting a headache with the effort of thinking if there is a worse job. But Abdullah is all smiles and simply delighted to see us. And we are, well, reasonably delighted to see Abdullah – but actually not for all that long.
Saturday 05 Apr 2014I’m sitting here getting a headache with the effort of thinking if there is a worse job. But Abdullah is all smiles and simply delighted to see us. And we are, well, reasonably delighted to see Abdullah – but actually not for all that long.
Nothing personal you understand. It is just that Abdullah is the frisker at the front of the polling station queue in central Kabul. And it falls to him to frisk men for suicide bomb-belts. You see the issue.
