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Former economy minister Anwarulaq Ahadi reacts to the assassination of General Abdul Raziq and considers the role the economy will play in elections which are going ahead in the rest of Afghanistan. Also in the programme, we have a report from the Indian state of Sikkim, which has become India's first fully organic state. There's an international economics of happiness conference taking place in Bristol in the west of England this weekend. Liz Zeidler is chief executive of the charity Happy City, and explains how their 'thriving places index' is being used to assess personal wellbeing in the UK. We ask if businesses are doing enough to help women going through the menopause; Lauren Chiren is a corporate executive turned wellbeing coach, whose experience during the menopause led her to set up the support organisation, Women of a Certain Stage. We look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Jim Edwards, founder of Business Insider in London, and Melody Hahm, senior writer for Yahoo Finance in New York. Plus Geraldine Doogue from ABC in Australia is with us throughout the programme.

Photo description: Newspaper-sized ballot paper at a warehouse in Kabul.
Photo credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images