KABUL (PAN): The United Nations top official in Afghanistan Thursday described the conduct of presidential and provincial council elections as an achievement for the Afghan people.
Haji Zaman said election observers were unable to visit any district of the province. “In most districts, there was fraud at the polling centres as all the process pushed forward by government officials,†he claimed.
KABUL (PAN): More than 1341 prisoners including 17 women on Thursday cast their votes in the presidential elections in Kabul, Khost and Parwan provinces on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Unofficial results indicate President Hamid Karzai and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah dominated vote counts in Kabuland are virtually in a dead heat (tied) in a dozen or so polling station counts.
KABUL (PAN): Three militants were killed and as many policemen injured in a four-hour clash that erupted in the heart of Kabul on Wednesday, a day ahead of key presidential and provincial council elections.
KABUL (PAN): The UN secretary-general has urged all Afghan women and men eligible to vote to cast their ballot in Thursday's presidential and provincial council elections.
WASHINGTON (PAN): Senior Afghan politician Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to Hamid Karzai in tomorrow's presidential polls, has accused the incumbent president of using the government machinery.
WASHINGTON (PAN): Acknowledging that it is not going to be a perfect presidential election, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday said it was the right of the people to pick their leaders.
JALALABAD (PAN): All polling centres in the eastern zone, where election materials have already been shifted, will remain open on Thursday, when 17 million Afghans will go to the polls.
JALALBAD (PAN): A tribal force has captured more than a dozen Taliban fighters during an ongoing search operation in the Spin Ghar district of the eastern province of Nangarhar.
