KABUL) on Saturday announced launching a 20-day voter registration process for the Sept 28 presidential election. Habib Rahman Nang, IEC secretary, told a press conference here the voter registration would underway until June 29. He added the process was launched…
Education officials on Wednesday said designating schools as voter registration centers had deprived thousands of students from attending their classes in central Logar province. Logar education department spokesman, Mohammad Shahpor Arab, told Pajhwok Afghan News that voter registration…
KABUL) said on Sunday. Syed Hafeezullah Hashami, IEC commissioner, told Pajhwok Afghan News over 4.8 million eligible persons, including men, women, Kochis and minorities, have registered as voters as of Saturday evening. “We did not expect the number of voters…
KABUL) said on Tuesday. A IEC list, available with Pajhwok Afghan News, shows that till yesterday’s afternoon, more than four million and 20,000 individuals have registered their names at voter registration centers including women, men, Kuhchis and Hindus in provincial…
So far more than three million people have registered to vote in the Oct 20 parliamentary and district council elections countrywide, officials said on Saturday, as above 1,000 voter registration centers stayed closed for security reasons. The Wolesi…
The residents of Sabari Yaqobi district of southeastern Khost province have been refusing to obtain Tazkera (paper identity card) in protest against what they allege ‘misbehavior of registration officers.’ Tribal elders of the district say they would…
Residents and provincial council (PC) members of eastern Nangarhar province say voter registration centers were attacked due to security forces’ negligence. Meanwhile, Nangarhar Independent Election Commission (IEC) authorities also complained about police negligence in duty, slowing the voter…
KABUL) said Monday. The voter registration process for the upcoming elections has been ongoing since April 14 and the commission has accelerated its efforts at holding free, fair and transparent polls. According to the IEC information, the voter registration drive…
Independent Election Commission (IEC) officials in central Logar province on Sunday said seven polling stations have been closed in the provincial capital, Pul-i-Alam, due to insecurity. IEC provincial committee head Khwaja Aminullah Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Taliban province, but Afghan forces killed them all, police said Thursday. Ghor police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal Nizami told Pajhwok Afghan News on Thursday that four Taliban assailants stormed a voter registration center in Kamarab area of Firozkoh city…
KABUL) to reconsider attaching stickers to identity cards (IDs) as part of voter registration. Khalili, who got registered as voter on Wednesday at one of the voter registration centres in capital Kabul, said one reason why the registration process had…
Fifty-three voter registration centres in central Uruzgan province have been closed due to insecurity, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Tuesday. Ahmad Shah Qanoni, head of the IEC’s provincial committee, told Pajhwok Afghan News only 12 out…
So far around 6,000 people, with women making 30 percent of them, have registered to vote in Oct 20 elections in central Panjshir province, an official said Monday. Agha Sherin Niazi, general administrative and services director at the…
The Taliban insurgents have blown up a school serving as a voter registration site in central Logar province, police said on Monday. Shahpur Ahmadzai, police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the school in a refugees’ town in the…
Encouraged by a potential Wolesi Jirga walked for a kilometer towards a voter registration center and got registered en masse in this capital city of northwestern Faryab province. The march, the first of its kind in Maimana, the provincial…
Two Taliban province, on Thursday, an official said. Police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal Niami said the Taliban attacked a voter registration center this afternoon in Kasi village. One assailant was killed and another injured during the attack by security…
Nearly 60,000 people, including 4,000 women, have registered as voters during the past 10 days in southern Kandahar province, electoral officials said on Tuesday. They said about 20, 000 individuals registered their names to vote in the Oct…
KABUL) has said more than 291,000 people have registered themselves as voters in provincial capitals as of Monday. IEC commissioner Rafiullah Baidar and Population Registration Authority (PRA) head Mohammad Humayon Muhtat appeared before the Meshrano Jirga or Senate to brief…
KABUL activists have demanded extension in the time allocated to the voter’s registration process. Holding a gathering in Kabul, the political workers and activists discussed the ongoing voter’ registration process and issued a resolution at the end. Sangar Ameerzada, head…
KABUL) says on Sunday. IEC Chief Abdul Badei Sayyad told reporters here the voter registration process was under way smoothly and the turnout of people at the registration centres was greater. “Until Saturday, 230,122 eligible persons that included 174,182 men,…
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has said if the voter registration process fails, it would confront the political process with challenges. Addressing an extra-ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, the CEO hoped the voters’ registration process…
