UPDATE: The second round has been confirmed and will take palce on November 7. Pres Karzai has called it a ‘step forward’ and Pres Obama has welcomed the news. Are you so positive?
Mark’s original post:
Hamid Karzai didn’t get enough valid votes to win the Afghan election.
His share of the vote drops below the 50 per cent mark and this means he could now face a run-off against his opponent Abdullah Abdullah. Dr. Abdullah’s party have expressed cautious optimism at the results and we could be looking at a power sharing arrangement between the two – but would this work? And what should happen now? Continue reading ‘On air: Round two in Afghanistan’
Analysts and experts are hugely important to how we tell the news and how we help to explain our world. And there will be some of them on today’s show and they’ll be very welcome. But sometimes I know that you just want to speak to the people directly involved in a story. We’re going to have a number of Afghans with us on today’s show. If you have any question that you’d like to ask them directly about what’s happening in their country, them post them here, and I’ll make sure I get you some answers. 
RSS feed
BBC World Have Your Say 