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Radio 4,25 Mar 2014,15 mins

David Loyn talks to Hekmat Karzai

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Next month, Afghanistan goes to the polls and its president, Hamid Karzai steps down. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Kabul correspondent, David Loyn, talks to his cousin, political analyst Hekmat Karzai. Western-educated and urbane, Hekmat Karzai nonetheless has to operate in a system where what your grandfather did can be more important than your own achievements, and where blood feuds can cut short a political career - both his father and his nephew were assassinated. What chance does Afghanistan have of moving towards a stable democracy? Producer: Jolyon Jenkins.

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