The best thing that can be said about Afghanistan’s parliamentary election Saturday was that it took place at all. The Taliban, who vowed to disrupt the vote, claimed to have staged 164 attacks nationwide on Saturday. Article Continued BelowIn these elections, voters were choosing among more than 2,500 candidates running for 250 seats in the lower house of parliament. It is worth the wait.” But frustration mounted as the hours passed and the pace of vote processing did not increase. In Herat, a man waited four hours to vote and poll workers could not find his name.

Source: thestar October 20, 2018 15:33 UTC