Afghanistan: The third election is looming since the Taliban’s fall in 2001

Like teenage girls giddy about a boy band, a swarm of flag-carrying young men surged towards the elevated stage, set against the green hills of Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz. The youths’ idol sat on a sofa chewing gum. Between them and him was a waterless ditch, 12 feet (four metres) deep, carved out of the sandy soil.

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