KANDHARCITY (PAN): More than 150 of the 643 polling centres proposed to be set up in the southern zone, comprising five provinces, will stay closed on Election Day (August 20) for security reasons.
KABUL (PAN): Seventy-five Taliban fighters put their weapons down and joined hands with government in central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, just a day ahead of presidential and provincial council elections, an official said.
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Suspected militants, who have vowed to disrupt Thursday's polls, have killed a provincial council candidate in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): An international group has said Afghans continue to have significant human rights concerns about the preparation and plans for the presidential election due on August 20 -- the second vote since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
TIRINKOT (PAN): A suicide bomber blew himself up at a polling station in the central province of Uruzgan, killing four Afghan army soldiers and two civilians, officials said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai Tuesday condemned deadly 'terrorist attacks' on a polling station in the central province of Uruzgan and on the Kabul-Jalalabad Highway east of the capital.
QALAT (PAN): Elaborate security arrangements have been put in place to ensure the safety of electoral officials and voters in the southern province of Zabul on Election Day, the police chief said on Tuesday.
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Top officials including the governor Tuesday claimed security had been strengthened for the upcoming polls in the troubled southern province of Ghazni, but the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said it could not open 33 polling centres due to insecurity.
KABUL (PAN): The UN special envoy to Afghanistan has underlined the imperative of a broad national consensus on core issues facing the war-torn country after Thursday's presidential and provincial council elections.
