Campaign

KABUL (PAN): Taliban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could contest the presidential elections, due in 2014, President Hamid Karzai told A German newspaper on Tuesday.
According to the Associated Press, the president acknowledged in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung “sporadic contacts” between his government and the Taliban.
Under the Afghan constitution, all Afghans could take part in the elections, he said, adding: “The Taliban also should benefit from it.”

KABUL (PAN): Civil society organisations (CSOs) on Tuesday suggested amendments to a draft election law, calling for reserving one vice-presidential slot for women in next year’s ballot.
At a consultative meeting attended by 30 representatives of the civil society organisations, the CSOs said different numbers of voting centres in different provinces were unjust and urged the changes to the proposed law.

Video Content Body

Language Undefined

CHARIKR (PAN): Hundreds of women from central Parwan province voiced support for President Hamid Karzai on Thursday, when he was sworn in along with two vice-presidents for a second five-year term.

BAMYAN CITY (PAN): Supporters of three political parties and local residents of the central Uruzgan and Daikundi provinces on Sunday voiced their support for incumbent President Hamid Karzai in the runoff polls set for November 7.

KABUL (PAN): Several political gatherings were held in different provinces on Saturday voicing support to incumbent president Hamid Karzai in the presidential election runoff set for November 7.

QALAT (PAN): A large number of people including tribal elders and religious scholars in southern Zabul and Helmand provinces on Wednesday voiced their support for President Hamid Karzai in the presidential election runoff set for November 7.

JALALABAD (PAN): Hundreds of elders in the eastern Nangarhar province held a political gathering to announce their support for President Hamid Karzai during the upcoming runoff scheduled for November 7.

KABUL/KUNDUZ (PAN): Harakat-i-Islami Afghanistan and tribal elders from the northern Kunduz province have voiced support for President Hamid Karzai in the run-off elections scheduled to be held on November 7.

JALALABAD (PAN): A countrywide electioneering has been launched for the November 7 runoff polls as a meeting was held in support of Hamid Karzai in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Saturday.