Power sharing in Afghanistan?

The World

Afghanistan might be heading toward a power sharing agreement between the two leading presidential candidates, incumbent Hamid Karzai and former foreign minister Adbdullah Abdullah. The model has been tried in other nations but the results were mixed, as The World’s Matthew Bell reports.

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