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I write this article because I am a strong believer in free, fair and transparent elections, I have had students and friends die in Afghanistan partly fighting for such elections.

No one ever expected after the Bonn Meetings of 2001, which established the political roadmap for Afghanistan's political future, that the realization of a democratic Afghan country would be easy. Numerous scholarly studies have suggested that "democracy" is extremely difficul...