Karzai counts on tribal allegiance
Pashtun support is likely to prove crucial for the president in the elections.
Published On 17 Aug 2009
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, is relying on ethnic affiliations to win in the country’s upcoming elections.
The support of Afghanistan’s ethnic Pashtun population, to which Karzai belongs, is crucial as they constitute the majority of the country’s 15 million eligible voters.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Kandahar on the tribal elders who hold sway over Afghanistan’s Pashtun heartland.
Source: Al Jazeera