When I was in Kabul in the last week of November the main news was that President Hamid Karzai and his senior aides and political allies had a long meeting with the 22 parties of the loyal opposition to, rather grandiloquently, discuss the next elections.
Najmuddin A. Shaikh, "What does Karzai want?," Dawn. 2012-12-13.Keywords: Political science , Political issues , Political process , Political parties , Elections-Afghanistan , Supreme court , Al-Qaeda , Elections , Taliban , Democracy , Burhanuddin Rabbani , President Karzai , Asadullah Khalid , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Kabul