KABUL moves forward with efforts to hold key parliamentary and district elections on 20 October 2018, the Afghan public has taken an intense interest in the high stakes of the democratic process, which also will include a presidential vote in 2019.
At a local level and across Afghanistan, the ongoing registration process has sparked considerable debate even within individual families. As one father in Jalalabad describes it, he tried for several hours to persuade his university-aged son to register to vote.
“He couldn’t . . .
