Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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First up, though.

In Afghanistan this weekend, voters will choose a president for the fourth time since the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001.

Polls in the country are never straightforward or calm.

Tomorrow's election takes place amid total chaos.

I mean, Afghanistan has been at war in some form another for more or less 40 years now.

The US and NATO have been present fighting there for a good 18 years.

Edward McBride is our Asia editor.

That war that they have with the Taliban has been going very badly, and the Taliban control

an ever-increasing amount of territory.

That fight has claimed 4,000 civilian lives in the first half of this year, according to

the UN's reckoning.

The election comes as the government is trying to gain a foothold in peace negotiations with the Taliban.

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