Sami Awami

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48 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Global News Podcast · BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime · 15 Jan 2026 podcast

We've seen a lot of political party supporters in big rallies, like massive rallies.

Hundreds of people have been attending.

But there has always been a question about whether these attenders in campaign rallies would translate into actually people going to vote.

There are several people that I've spoken to here and then asked them whether they were planning to vote.

Quite a few of them expressed disinterest, really, not going to vote.

And they said,

the winner of the election, especially the presidential candidate, is almost known already.

So they felt like there was no point for them to go out to vote.

But this morning when I visited these polling stations, some of them had long queues, maybe over 100 people.

But the first one, especially the polling station where the opposition politician, the opposition presidential candidate, the main opposition president candidate was going to vote, there were less than 100 people.

And it's quite a big district.

You'd expect there would be many people there, but it was different.

Well, that question really depends on who you ask, right?

If you ask the Electoral Commission, they've been assuring voters that they would manage these elections with utmost professionalism.

They would abide with the law and making sure that

Whoever wins will be announced.

But again, when you ask the opposition and activists, they'll tell you otherwise.

And they said, you know, they point out to some of the experiences, especially the opposition have had in the last few weeks, few months.

The opposition, the main opposition party, the National Union Party have said,

Over 700 of their supporters and senior leaders have been either arrested or disappeared.

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