Tolo News: Independent Election Commission (IEC) members on Sunday elected Najibullah Ahmadzai as the new head, Wasima Badghisi as operational deputy and Abdul Qadir Qurashi as administrative deputy of the commission. Gulajan Abdul Badi Sayad was elected as secretary and spokesman of the IEC. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 22, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s new electoral commissioners were sworn in Tuesday, paving the way for long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections. President Ashraf Ghani and his governing partner in the so-called National Unity Government (NUG), Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, witnessed and addressed the swearing-in ceremony at Kabul’s presidential palace. The
Al Jazeera: The outcome of the US presidential election has a far-reaching impact, and in Afghanistan’s capital, some have definite ideas about who they would like to see in office: Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. This is the country where America’s longest war has been playing out since 2001. It’s where US
Khaama Press: A Pakistani senator has claimed the country fixed the 2009 Afghan Presidential Elections in the favour of the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Senator Mushahid Hussain made the revelation during an interview with a local newspaper. Pointing towards Pakistan’s role in shaping the polling results, Senator Hussain explicitly told The Express that “the election, we
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday approved two crucial laws including the draft law on electoral reforms and the much-awaited census law. “The president has approved the draft law on election reforms and the law is prepared, the law on which the ministry of justice is working, all issues pertaining to the law will be finalized
Tolo News: The Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) on Wednesday announced that the election observer body has submitted a proposal to government defining a number of key elements to extending the political role of women in the country and to encourage them to cast their ballots in future elections. Click here to read
1TV: Majority of the citizens of Afghanistan have called for change from the presidential system, a survey conducted by Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies revealed Tuesday. Out of the majority of people who voted in favor of change in presidential system, 28 percent proposed parliamentary system of governance where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from
VOA News August 12, 2016 Hasib Danish Alikozai Afghanistan was on the brink of a civil war when both presidential candidates claimed victory in the 2014 run-off election, which outside observers called flawed by fraud and irregularities led to a contested result. The impasse was only resolved after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brokered
Tolo News: The National Unity Government (NUG) has drawn up a new electoral reforms roadmap, Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah said Monday. Abdullah said the new roadmap is a combination of two electoral laws and other necessary entries that will pave the way for reforms to be brought in the electoral system. He said that reforms will
Tolo News: The Meshrano Jirga (the Upper House of Parliament) on Tuesday approved President Ashraf Ghani’s legislative decree on electoral reforms. After this, a joint commission of Meshrano Jirga and Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) will pave the way for bringing reforms into electoral bodies and the electoral system. This comes after the Wolesi Jirga rejected the