Jerome Starkey from Kabul in The Independent:
The great grandson of Afghanistan’s legendary Iron Amir – who once forced an adulterous man to eat his mistress – has joined the race to be the country’s next president. Prince Abdul Ali Seraj, who opened Afghanistan’s first nightclub in the 1970s, says it is time to launch “psychological warfare” against the Taliban and reclaim Islamic law from the extremists. He insists Afghanistan needs a “change candidate” because President Hamid Karzai has failed.
His great grandfather Abdur Rahman Khan ruled from 1880 to 1901, massacring tens of thousands on the battlefield, while executing and torturing hundreds more who he suspected of dissent. He made slaves of an entire province, yet he is fondly remembered inside Afghanistan as one of the few rulers in the last 250 years to unite the country’s tribes.
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