All Elections News

KABUL (PAN): Senior government officials Tuesday urged the masses to go to polling stations and cast their votes without any fear, as stringent security arrangements would be in place on Election Day.

GAHZNI CITY (PAN): A convoy carrying electoral materials for Thursdayâ€™s elections was attacked by Taliban insurgents in the southern volatile Ghazni province, an official said on Tuesday, with four policemen wounded.

GHAZNI CIYY (PAN): Renewing their threat to disrupt Thursday's presidential and provincial council elections, Taliban have warned to 'close for ever' the schools and health centres used as polling stations.

KABUL (PAN): Electoral assistance organisation Democracy International (DI) has begun to deploy its short-term observers across Afghanistan as part of a 60-person international mission to observe the countrys presidential and provincial elections, to be held on August 20.

SHABARGHAN (PAN): A roadside bomb hit an election convoy of President Hamid Karzai wounding two policemen on Sunday night in the northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Monday.

KABUL (PAN): Despite their claims to support women's rights, the presidential candidates generally have not allowed their wives to work or be a public part of their campaign.

GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Taliban insurgents, who have vowed to disrupt the presidential and provincial council polls slated for Thursday, are going from door to door to collect voter registration cards from residents of Gilan district of southern Ghazni province.

KABUL (PAN): The National Democratic Institute (NDI) said on Sunday it was conducting an international election observation mission for the presidential and provincial council elections, slated for Thursday.

JALALABAD (PAN): Five days ahead of the presidential and provincial council elections, a day-long workshop featuring tribal elders and religious scholars from the eastern Kandahar province began in Jalalabad Saturday morning.

KABUL (PAN): Education Minister Farooq Wardak has asked all staffers of his ministry and students to cast their votes in the presidential and provincial council elections, scheduled for Thursday.