MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – Afghan poll workers made an unusual discovery among ballot papers from yesterday’s election — a hand-written plea from a woman asking the president to do something about her unfaithful husband.
The note to President Hamid Karzai, written in blue pen on a sheet of lined note-paper, was found tucked among voting slips in ballot boxes at a polling station in a small school in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
“With warm greetings to the president,” it began.
“I am a woman whose husband disappears during the day every day and wanders around the town and through parks with different types of women, while my children and I sit at home hungry, waiting for him,” it read.
The unidentified woman accused her husband of ignoring his family and of taking all their money for himself.
“I want to ask you, Mr. President, to notice how much adultery there is among men,” the letter read.
