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　　It's hard to picture, but 15 years ago the Talibanheld mass hangings and amputations in the samestadium.

　　Today's urban youth are more optimistic.

　　But like Haideri Kawash, they are tired of years of violence. "When I come from home to dopractice here, there are too much fears, bomb blasters, many dangerous things. So I hope thatthe new government come and ensure security all over the country.

　　Fahima Kawoon hosts a popular call-in music show. She said Afghanistan will never return to atime women and youth were ignored.

　　"When you compare now with five years ago, everything is changed, because at that time thegirls were not working out of the home, and there were less girls working out of the home, orgoing to school, but now we see in every place, in every area, young people working," saidKawoon.

　　Not everyone, though, is optimistic about the future.

　　Rohullah was a refugee during Taliban times. Then he worked with U.S. forces trying to improvehis country. Now he is afraid for his life and is trying again to leave.

　　"All the candidates say after they win the elections they say they are going to bring changes,they always say they are going to being changes for the Afghan people, but I think all they sayis just a dream," said Rohullah.

　　Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington said no one candidate willcontrol the youth vote.

　　"I think it is not yet clear how important the youth vote will be in Afghanistan; it depends onhow many young people actually come out to vote and who they vote for. I don't think that youshould expect any one candidate to dominate the youth market, I would expect they willsplit," said Kagan.

　　Young business and political voices here say it is not so much about who wins, but whetherthey win legitimately.

　　Fahim Tokhi, CEO of an IT solutions company, and active on Facebook, said today's youth arewilling to fight for that.

　　"If the election result is corrupt, I think the youth will go to streets and there will be very hugenumbers of protesters in the streets in every provinces of Afghanistan," said Tokhi.

　　Although politicized urban youth are still fairly small in numbers in Afghanistan, they believetheir reach through media makes them influential. This election gives them a chance to proveit.

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