In Afghan race, wooing votes with ethnic strongmen

Published March 24, 2014 3:06am ET



KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — On the edge of a Kabul neighborhood dominated by members of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara minority, an election poster of presidential candidate Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf is damaged — partially scraped away by someone trying to remove it.

The vandalism could be his past as a warlord coming back to haunt him.

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