A warlord returns to Afghanistan

The World

It’s the last day of campaigning for presidential elections in Afghanistan on Thursday. President Hamid Karzai got an endorsement from a notorious warlord. General Abdul Rashid Dostum returned from exile yesterday to urge his supporters to vote for the incumbent, Hamid Karzai. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports.

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