Female Afghan parliamentary election candidate, Dewa Niazai, sits at her office during an election campaign in Jalalabad, Afghanistan October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Parwiz
KABUL (Reuters) - More female candidates than ever are set to contest Afghanistan's upcoming parliamentary election, braving violence and opposition from social conservatives in a campaign seen as a test of the war-torn nation's democratic institutions.
"Elections in my country are not just about victory or defeat," said Dewa Niazai, a 26 year-old candidate from the eastern province of Nangarhar, who holds a degree in computer science from India. "It is about launching a small-scale war. I can get killed, injured or abducted."
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