New generation asserts itself in Afghan vote
KABUL, Afghanistan - Their faces beam down from campaign billboards and banners blanketing the Afghan capital: young people, more than ever before, competing in this month's parliamentary elections.
Nearly half of the roughly 2,500 candidates are younger than 40, an unprecedented wave that is challenging entrenched power brokers and promising to fight corruption and mismanagement in Afghanistan's beleaguered government.
"We have seen in the past that most parliament members were not educated or were notorious war criminals, corrupt or convicts," said Javid Faisal, 26, a former government spokesman running to represent the southern city of
