“I’m happy to be voting today,” said 28-year-old Hashmatullah. “I’m voting to contribute to democracy.”
KABUL—Despite threats of attacks by Taliban insurgents, Afghans came forward slowly early Saturday to vote in the country’s fourth presidential election since a U.S.-led invasion toppled the hard-line Islamist movement from power 18 years ago.
The polling station at the Khwaja Ali Mouafaq Herawi mosque in central Kabul, one of 5,373 posts in schools and mosques across the country, was empty of when the gate opened for voters at 7 a.m. local time. Many of the election workers, mostly schoolteachers hired temporarily from their...
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