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KABUL (PAN): Several members of the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament announced their support for President Hamid Karzai for his second term of five years in office.

KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai has sought financial and technical support from the United States for holding the country's parliamentary polls expected to take place in September this year.

KABUL (PAN): While some lawmakers favour the Independent Election Commission's decision of postponing the parliamentary polls, others are averse to the IEC move.

GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Election for the district shura in Khwaja Omari district of the southern Ghazni province was completed on Tuesday.

KABUL (PAN): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Monday made it clear the level of its engagement in the upcoming parliamentary elections, postponed for four months, would depend on reforms.

KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) is likely to postpone parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in the month of May this year, an official confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Sunday.

KABUL (PAN): In an expected move that was immediately welcomed by the United Nations and the United States, Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) Sunday postponed parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held in May this year.

GHAZNI CITY (PAN): A failed candidate for the provincial council has been shot dead by Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan, which continues to be haunted by militant-linked violence.

KABUL (PAN): The Wolesi Jirga, which has already rejected several ministers-designate, started voting on President Hamid Karzai's second slate of cabinet nominees Saturday morning.

KABUL (PAN): Minister-Designate of Foreign Affairs Dr. Zalmay Rasul Saturday won a vote of confidence from the Wolesi Jirga, or the Lower House of Parliament. Of the 224 members attending today's session, 132 endorsed Rasul for the key slot cabinet while 82 voted against him. Nine votes were declared invalid.