KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: The biggest single test of the success of international military intervention in Afghanistan could be the length of queues at polling stations in Kandahar city on April 5 next year — and local officials are gloomy.

Candidates’ papers are now being checked after 27 names registered for the election to succeed President Hamid Karzai, who came to power after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime in 2001.

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