Ahmad Majidyar, who compiled a masterful summary of the news in Afghanistan about their elections, points out one additional story: Jamil Karzai, a close relative of Pres. Hamid Karzai and a candidate for the Afghan parliamentary elections, forced his way into a Kabul vote-counting center and interrupted the process, observers say.

Family matters in Afghanistan. If Karzai wanted to dissuade such antics, he could.