‘I was expelled from Afghanistan’

Our senior producer in London heard this BBC Radio 4 interview by Fergal Keane from his ‘Taking a Stand’ series. Keane talks to Michael Semple (pictured), whose ideas while working in Afghanistan, including reintegrating moderate Taliban into society, saw him expelled in 2007 by President Karzai’s government.

• Michael Semple on BBC’s “Taking a Stand”
• The World: Our interview with Semple in October, 2009

Karzai declared elected president

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Hamid Karzai has been declared the elected president of Afghanistan by poll officials, after they scrapped the planned second round of the vote, Karzai’s challenger, Abdullah Abdullah had pulled out of the race, saying the poll would not have been free or fair. The first round of the vote, in August, was marred by mass electoral fraud. Matthew Bell reports.
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• BBC coverage
• Afghan election