Campaign

CHARIKAR, KUNDUZ, MEHTARLAM (Pajhwok): Frontrunner Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday pledged he would construct two big hydropower dams in central Kapisa and Panjsher provinces if he won the June 14 runoff ballot.
Abdullah held out the promise during a speech to hundreds of his supporters in Kapisa province in the morning.
Lawmakers, religious scholars, provincial council members and his team members attended the gathering, where the former foreign minister expressed optimism he would win the ballot.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Frontrunner Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Friday urged Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar to return to their homeland and choose to live in peace as part of a broader national consensus.
“Peace comes with national consensus and on the basis of that consensus I urge all the disgruntled leaders, especially Mullah Omar and Gulbadin Hekmatyar to return to their country and live in peace with their brothers,” Ghani told a campaign gathering in Kandahar City.

KABUL (Pajhwok): In a latest development, the Wadan Afghanistan Party (WAP) on Friday announced support to presidential contender Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in the runoff ballot scheduled to take place on June 14.
Hundreds of party’s workers attended the gathering here in Kabul held in support of Ahmadzai. Muhammad Yar, a leading member of the party, told the gathering they had decided to back the former finance minister because he had the qualities to lead the country to development and prosperity.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Leading presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Friday said the promotion of sports would be one of his top priorities because sportsmen could play a key role in doing away with poverty and starvation.
Addressing thousands of sportsmen at the Badam Bagh area in Kabul, Abdullah said he was thankful to sportsmen for supporting him in the previous round of presidential elections.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai has partially revealed his economic policy which he would implement if wins the presidential runoff election slated for June 14.
Ghani held a meeting with investors, industrialists, university teachers, students and civil society activists in Kabul a day earlier. The meeting lasted three hours.
The candidate said he would promote the livestock sector and local industry to replace products imported from foreign countries.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Presidential runner Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Thursday said he would consult religious scholars about government’s affairs and his government would be based on the concepts of Afghaniyat (Afghan-hood) and Islamiyat (Muslim-hood) if he won the June 14 presidential election runoff.
Ghani, locked in a head-to-head race with Abdullah Abdullah, another major presidential candidate, was pledged support by thousands of religious scholars, former jihidis and influential figures coming all the way from various parts of the country to Kabul.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Major presidential hopeful Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Thursday lauded women’s participation in the April 5 polls and promised to protect their rights as his top priority if elected in the runoff round.
His reform and unanimity team would practically implement the promises he made during the election campaign.
The presidential hopeful said women were still subjected to different kinds of violence, earning Afghanistan a bad name in the international community.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Hizb-i-Musharekat Mili, a political party on Wednesday announced support to presidential runner Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai for the second round of election.
A large number of party members, Ulama, jihadi figures, including Abdul Hakim Mujahid, Maulvi Qalamuddin, Maulvi Khalilullah Firozi and others participated in the meeting held in support of Ahmadzai in the capital Kabul on Wednesday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, failed presidential candidate in April 5 election, announced support to presidential contender Dr. Abdullah Abdullah in runoff poll scheduled to be held on June 14, officials said on Tuesday.
Addressing a gathering in Kabul, Sayyaf’s team managers formally announced support to Abdullah in the second round of ballot.
Though Sayyaf was not present at the gathering but a statement was read out on his behalf announcing his backing in favour of Abdullah.

BAMYAN (Pajhwok): The Ulama council in central Bamyan province called election a religious and national responsibility to be discharged by the people by actively participating in second round of the polls.
The council in a statement asked people to take part in June, 14, ballot to elect their next president.
They called the process extremely significant and decisive, stressing ballot was of great importance in the country’s current situation.