Parties

KABUL (Pajhwok): The 2014 presidential election campaign led to rift among families as relatives were observed supporting different candidates in the race.
Nasrullah Baryalai Arsalai and Haji Din Mohammad are two brothers but the former supported presidential contender Dr. Abdullah Abdullah but the latter Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
Son of Amanullah Jabbarkhel, Nasrullah Baryalai Arsalai was born in 1958 in eastern Nangarhar province. Arsalai is the brother of former and late Jihadi leaders Haji Abdul Qadir and Haji Abdul Haq.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Rights and Justice Party on Saturday demanded the presidential contenders to respect the constitution and accept final results of June 14 runoff election.
Hamidullah Farooqi, the party spokesman, told reporters delay in election results was negatively impacting the entire nation. The Rights and Justice Party was against the inordinate delay of election process and called for end to the electoral impasse, he added.

KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of political groups called upon the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Friday to announce the election results without any further delay.
Member and supporters of Afghan Millat Party (AMP), National Front Party (NFP) and supporters of front runner Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai participated in the congregation held in Kabul.

FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): Activists of the Afghan Millat Party (AMP) held a rally in southern Farah province on Thursday demanding immediate results of the presidential election.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) urged the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday to ensure timely announcement of the final results in collaboration with the United Nations (UN).

GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Governor of southeastern Paktia province Juma Khan Hamdard on Thursday warned the Reform and Unanimity team against testing the masses’ patience with inordinate demands.
“Dr. Abdullah is negotiating a deal on a government of unity on the one hand and trying to declare a parallel government on the other,” he said at a security meeting in Gardez, the provincial capital.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wafaq-i-Milli Party on Monday rejected the idea of a national unity government, alleging both election teams were comprised of corrupt and unqualified people.
Addressing a press conference in Kabul, the party chief Bismillah Sher, said that people responsible for the current crisis in the county were members of the two teams.
He claimed traitors and corrupt individuals were sitting around the presidential candidates. Honest and faithful people should be given a chance to serve the country, he stressed.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) led by Eng. Gulbadin Hikmatyar on Saturday rejected reports that it was sending a delegation to Kabul for talks on various issues with new government.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Unity Front, opposing foreign military bases in Afghanistan, on Monday slammed efforts for forming a government of national as a conspiracy to install a weak administration.
The second round of the presidential polls ran into a deadlock after Abdullah alleged massive fraud and boycotted the election commissions. But the month-long impasse was resolved by US Secretary of State John Kerry’s mediation.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul-based political analysts on Saturday expressed cynicism about the concept of a national unity government, believing that some greedy politicians are eying perks and power by entering such a dispensation.
During a debate on the issue at the Regional Studies Centre in Kabul, speakers said the idea was patently in conflict with the democratic spirit of elections and the winner forming a government of his choice.