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IWPR provides snapshot of what leading candidates, diplomats and commentators have been saying about the Afghan poll.
Reporter tells how clerics urge Afghans to boycott August 20 vote.
A courageous Iraqi journalist, who covered sectarian violence in the north of the country, has been murdered in Mosul, the latest victim of attacks against Muslim women reporters.