Violations

KABUL (Pajhwok): The media commission of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Wednesday fined 13 television channels and a radio network for violation of laws during election campaign, an official said.

SHARAN (Pajhwok): At least ballots of 183 polling centres had been quarantined in southeastern Paktika province, election officials said on Tuesday.
Abdul Majid Malang, the Independent Electoral Complaint Commission (IECC) commissioner in Paktika, said 50 of the voting centres were located in Orgun and the rests in other districts.
In his chat with Pajhwok Afghan News, he added: “Each voting centre comprises six ballot boxes and 1,098 ballot boxes of the polling centres have been quarantined. Bogus and valid votes will be separated.”

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Sunday said it had recommended placing under quarantine ballot boxes of 26 polling centres in northern Balkh province.
They said a vote recount and audit into 50 of 73 ballot boxes from 17 polling centres in Balkh had been completed in compliance with directives from the Independent Election Commission (IEC)’s main office in Kabul.
IECC official in Balkh Dad Mohammad Anabi told Pajhwok Afghan News there were 126 complaints and all of them had been investigated.

FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): Two district police chiefs and six Independent Election Commission (IEC) workers have been fined for committing fraud during the April 5 elections in western Farah province, an official said Sunday.
Those fined included police chiefs for Khak-i-Safed and Pusht Koh districts, who had been deployed for security of polling stations in their respective towns.

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Sunday said it had cancelled about 100,000 votes cast at 27 polling stations in western Herat province.
IECC Herat chief Abdullah Sherzai told reporters the votes were thrown out in light of investigations into 28 complaints registered in this regard.
He said the invalid votes belonged to presidential candidates and had been cast at polling stations in Herat City and Kushk, Rubat Sangi, Shindand, Farsi, Gulran and Kuhsan districts.

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): At least 92 ballot boxes have been quarantined and 11 officials including two provincial council candidates and nine Independent Election Commission (IEC) workers fined on charges of elections fraud in northeastern Kunduz province, an official said Sunday.

ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Sunday said quarantined votes of 18 polling centers and 17 poll stations of southwestern Nimroz province.
Provincial IECC chief Dr Abdul Raziq Saifi told Pajhwok Afghan News 42 complaints in line with April 5 elections had been recorded, with 28 among them those cases stood in A category.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Presidential runner Gul Agha Sherzai on Saturday said he would not endorse a president elected through fraud and such an election would be in violation of national sovereignty.
Sherzai told this to a gathering of tribal elders and residents coming all the way from Helmand, Uruzgan, Zabul, Nimroz and Farah provinces to the southern city of Kandahar.
The former Nangarhar governor said the Afghans braved threats to participate in the April 5 polls, but unfortunately the elections were massively rigged countrywide, especially in Kandahar.