The US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday and discussed the September 28 elections, according to a US State Dept. spokesperson.Ghani tweet...
Officials from the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Thursday raised concerns over reports that another 14 polling centers will be closed due to security problems--this in addition to the 431 p...
As the election draws near, independent monitors and the public are alarmed over a lack of transparency and credibility in the process.On Thursday, officials from the Transparent Election Foundation o...
20 districts, scattered across provinces Maidan Wardak, Ghazni, Faryab and Nuristan, will not be safe enough for voting, their residents reported on Thursday.According to locals in Faryab, seven out o...
In the run-up to the presidential elections on September 28, the United Nations in Afghanistan urged all stakeholders to play their part in creating conditions for citizens to vote in safety and to en...
Some of Afghanistan’s mainstream political leaders on Wednesday warned that the elections could cause more turmoil in the country, and they suggested that peace should be the top priority rather than...
Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah held campaign rallies in three provinces on Wednesday, the last day of campaigning. He declared his confidence in a win and expressed his concerns about fraud by Pres...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the reconciled leader of Hizb-e-Islami, vowed on Wednesday to crush any kind of fraud or foreign interference in Afghanistan’s elections on Saturday.Mr. Hekmatyar, who recently re...
On the last of day of the election campaign, mainstream candidates including Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah appeared among their supporters and attempted to explain their agenda for the country....
The Independent Election Commission, IEC, is fully prepared for the election on September 28 now that all employees have been hired and trained and election materials are being distributed, the head o...
