Some analysts say it is essential that the caretaker government brings about fundamental reforms with immediate effect and say a government should be formed based on a new constitution and steps should be taken towards elections. The caretaker…
The Taliban said on Saturday that the situation in Afghanistan unlike other countries was not conducive for elections. Dr Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Qatar, said in a video interview that Afghanistan had…
KABUL) begins the vote recount process despite opposition from the Stability and Partnership team, according to a statement from the election body. IEC has asked observes to be present on due date and time for the audit and recount process…
Pajhwok Afghan News reliably learned on Wednesday that the votes of 8,494 polling stations will be audited and recounted. According to a document, most of the identified polling stations that will be audited and recounted are in the…
KABUL’s presidential elections will be held tomorrow (Saturday) in which 14 candidates contesting to become the next president. Earlier, 18 individuals had registered as presidential candidates but three candidates joined others by retreating from contest while Mohammand Hanif Atmar halts…
The election commission on Saturday launched a 20-day voter registration process for the upcoming presidential election countrywide but people see the growing insecurity as a major challenge to the Sept 28 poll. Local officials in northern Sar-i-Pul province…
The Election Support Group (ESG) on Tuesday welcomed the appointment of new electoral commissioners and secretaries in a statement. The ESG statement said it noticed the consultative process on the selection, in which the government, political parties, civil…
KABUL election results. Two days back, TEFA in a statement said that the IEC had been unable to announce the election results from a number of provinces in more than two months, something against the schedule. The organization had said…
KABUL elections in Kabul’s constituencies, calling for reelections in the central province. The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on December 6 declared all votes cast in Kabul in the Oct parliamentary polls as invalid, pending investigation into alleged fraud and…
KABUL) official on Tuesday said the Afghan government and the international community were not on same page over the conduct of presidential election on April 20. The IEC official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
KABUL and Badghis provinces. Addressing a press conference, IEC head Abdul Baday Sayyad on Tuesday evening announced the names of winning candidates as following: Ghor: Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Malikzada has received 18,448 votes Atta Mohammad Dehqanpur has received 10,181 votes…
The Independent Election Commission (IEC elections results of Daikundi, Farah, Uruzgan, Jawzjan and Bamyan provinces. Addressing reporters IEC Head Abdul Baday Sayyad announced the names of winning candidates as following: Daikundi: Sayed Dawood Nasiri, Raihana Azad, Ali Akbar Jamsheedi…
KABUL (nomads) tribe on Wednesday claimed the elections in their electoral zone were rigged and warned to boycott future polls if their claims were not investigated and addressed. More than 20 candidates from the Kuchi electoral zone came together from…
KABUL) to act about the issue according to the law. On Thursday, the Afghanistan Grand National Alliance (GNA), a coalition of major political parties, announced it would soon be introducing a joint presidential candidate. The alliance’s leadership council met in Kabul and…
Kabul (TEFA), Election and Transparency Watch Organization of Afghanistan (ETWA), Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA), Afghanistan Civil Society Forum-organization (ACSFo), and Afghanistan Amputee Bicyclists for Rehabilitation and Recreation( AABRAR) to observe the candidates’ campaign activities, and voting…
Footages and complaints show ballot boxes were allegedly stuffed at polling stations in Mosahi district of central Kabul province on the election day (Oct 20). According to the Independent Election Commission (IEC tribesmen, and five Hindu minorities have…
Though some problems and violations marred the Wolesi Jirga elections in southern Kandahar province, yet the overall process was a success in the province, an election observer said Sunday. Ziba, an election observer in Kandahar in an…
As rumor has it, some Wolesi Jirga candidates allegedly gave people ‘fake currency notes’ to buy their votes during the Oct 20 parliamentary elections in southeastern Paktia province. The claim has been making the rounds on social media.…
A number of Wolesi Jirga candidates on Thursday claimed no voting took place in Tala wa Barfak district of northern Baghan province, but ballot boxes were stuffed in some areas. One of the disgruntled candidates, Abdul Samad Hamid…
Hundreds of residents from Doshi district of northern Baghlan province on Tuesday visited the governor’s house here and demanded fresh elections in their areas after thousands failed to cast their votes due to insecurity. One of the residents,…
KABUL elections. On the other hand, UNAMA expressed deep concern over recent public statements made by the Taliban, especially those that indicate their intention to carry out attacks against schools that will be used as polling centres. UNAMA in a…
