Tolo News: Presidential candidate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar at a news conference on Tuesday said that those involved in electoral fraud should be brought to court. He insisted that out of 2.5 million votes, 1.2 million are fraudulent and have been cast in favor of a certain campaign team. Hekmatyar had a list of demands: Click here
Ariana: An official at the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) stated on Monday that preparations for a possible runoff are underway in the commission. However, election watchdogs stress that IEC does not have the capability of managing a possible runoff. Click here to read more (external link). More Election Related News Nabil Boycotts Vote Recounting
1TV: Afghan presidential candidate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said on Sunday that an interim government must be formed before holding any future election in the country. Hekmatyar, who was addressing reporters in Kabul, claimed that as many as one million fraudulent votes were cast in favour of incumbent President Ashraf Ghani. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Gunmen associated with Commander Zalmay, a member of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-Islami group, have killed three members of a family–including one child– in Baghlan province, security sources told TOLOnews. Security sources said that the gunmen killed the family following a brawl over 70,000 Afs in Khalazayee village in Baghlan province. Click here to read more
By Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 10, 2019 KABUL – Two-thirds of the votes cast for incumbent Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in last month’s presidential election were cast without proper biometric verification and fraudulent, a leading rival candidate, former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said Oct. 7, joining a chorus of candidates making similar accusations. “This election
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 28, 2019 KABUL — Polls have closed in Afghanistan’s presidential election with voting marred by several attacks and reports of problems at polling stations. Fifteen candidates were on the ballot, but the race was widely seen as a two-horse race between President Ashraf Ghani, who is seeking another five-year
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 27, 2019 Fifteen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election on September 28 in a race among old power brokers — ex-government officials, prominent technocrats, and a notorious former warlord. The twice-delayed September 28 election is slated to be only the second-ever democratic transition of power in the
Press TV September 14, 2019 A team of negotiators from the Afghan Taliban has traveled to Russia days after the collapse of year-long negotiations between the US and the militant group. Taliban’s Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Russia’s TASS news agency on Friday that the group’s delegation had met with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan,
Tolo News: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hizb-e-Islami party who runs for president, says the incumbent government is “weak” and cannot decide on major issues in the country and that it will “collapse” if the US forces leave the war-ravaged Afghanistan. “There is no doubt in US forces withdrawal [from Afghanistan]. They will definitely leave [the country],”
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 9 , 2019 Seventeen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election in a race among old power brokers — ex-government officials, prominent technocrats, and a notorious former warlord. The twice-delayed September 28 election is slated to be only the second-ever democratic transition of power in the war-wracked country