KABUL - Election officials in Afghanistan on Friday began counting the votes cast in Thursday's presidential and provincial polls. In capitals from Kabul to Islamabad to Washington, officials are counting the days until they can engage the Taliban and bring them into the mainstream political process.
Approximately 40%-50% of the 17 million registered voters made it to the 6,202 polling centers scattered across the country, according to a senior election official, Zekria Barakzai. This was in defiance of calls from the Taliban to boycott the vote, although at
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