Democracy in Afghanistan

Here is some news about the democracy in Afghanistan. it is working.

well, that must be good news, No?

well not exactly. it is working the same like in many third world countries. there are fraud elections and the ballot boxes are stuffed for the ruling person.

consider the recent election. Hamid Karzai’s supporters had already stuffed the ballot boxes before the elections even started. at some places there were more votes than registered voters. for example:

In Helmand, for instance, Western officials believe that in the district of Garmser about 5,000 people voted. But the ballot boxes arriving in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, contain about 20,000. In Musa Qala the discrepancy was between 9,000 and 18,000. Mr Hadee, the IEC official, now says that turnout in Helmand was 25%. Some Western officials reckon 20% of votes nationally may be fraudulent.

but that is not all. the country is  in bad shape. August tied for the deadliest month.

Whatever happened to the Dream of a democratic Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s poppy Chulo

the poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has reached a record high.

and it seems that it will remain so for the next so  many decades. the country’s law makers are involved in it.

but shouldn’t poppy eradication be the top priority of all the nations?

I believe it should be the top priority. there is a reason for it. although a terrorist might kill a couple of hundred at most times, a drug dealers kills whole nations, albeit at a slower pace. the impact of the people using drugs reaches not only the person using it, but to any one who cares about that person at all.

so “war on drugs” should be fought ahead of “war on terror”. but the leader in that category, USA, will not do that because it wont serve its interests; it has a pliant government at the helm of affairs in Afghanistan. why would it bother doing anything about the poppy culture?