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Afghanistan and Pakistan: Taliban Toxin:

Wolfgang Danspeckgruber and William Maley, June 2009

The World Today, Volume 65, Number 6

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Elections are divisive, pitting parties against each other in the pursuit of power. In Afghanistan the presidential poll could increase conflict too, with the Taliban exploiting easy targets and the risk of fraud high and rising. If things do go wrong, the shockwaves could cross the border into Pakistan where the Taliban toxin has been spreading.