That is a great scarf. I wonder where she got it? It is brown and beige but that is a rather unusual maroon-brown color.
Nearly two thirds of electorate turn out to vote in first ever democratic transfer of power
Sun, Apr 6, 2014, 12:37
A bigger-than-expected turnout (click here) in Afghanistan’s
presidential election and the Taliban’s failure to significantly disrupt
the vote has raised questions about the capacity of the insurgents to
tip the country back into chaos as foreign troops head home.
The Taliban claimed that they staged more than
1,000 attacks and killed dozens during Saturday’s election, which they
have branded a US-backed deception of the Afghan people, though security
officials said it was a gross exaggeration.
There were dozens of minor roadside bombs, and
attacks on polling stations, police and voters during the day. But the
overall level of violence was much lower than the Taliban had threatened
to unleash on the country.
And, despite the dangers they faced at polling
stations, nearly 60 per cent of the 12 million people eligible to vote
turned out, a measure of the determination for a say in their country’s
first-ever democratic transfer of power, as President Hamid Karzai prepares to stand down after 12 years in power....
The Afghans are magnificently brave people that will not be undone. They are a great people. Just because the USA has been occupying their land as if they really needed it does not diminish the fact they are great people.
The Afghans are magnificently brave people that will not be undone. They are a great people. Just because the USA has been occupying their land as if they really needed it does not diminish the fact they are great people.
