FILE PHOTO - Afghan president Ashraf Ghani inspects the honor guard before the handover ceremony of Blackhawk helicopters from U.S. to the Afghan forces at the Kandahar Air base, Afghanistan October 7, 2017.REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
KABUL (Reuters) - Less than a year before Afghanistan is due to hold much-delayed parliamentary elections, technical problems and political wrangling are hampering a project seen as vital to ensuring the country's long-term stability.
Ever since the fraud-tainted presidential election of 2014, the Kabul government and its Western backers have been wrestling with the problem of how to hold fair and transparent elections. Parliamentary and district council polls scheduled for July 7 are seen as a major political test and dry run for the next presidential vote in 2019.
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