Violations

JALALABAD (PAN): Grant Kippen, head of the Electoral Complaints Commission, met with provincial council candidates during his visit to the eastern province of Nangarhar on Saturday.

KABUL (PAN): A day after his supporters were barred from holding a gathering in Kabul Medical University's cafeteria, presidential hopeful Mirwais Yasini said he would complain to Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC).

KABUL (PAN): The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has fined President Hamid Karzai's running mate Karim Khalili for misusing his authority.

KABUL (PAN): Eight presidential candidates have been fined on the basis of complaints from the Independent Election Commission (IEC) that they failed to file or presented late their second interim campaign finance reports.

KABUL (PAN): The Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FFEFA) said on Thursday that 52 cases of election law violations by presidential and provincial council candidates had been detected during the past 18 days.

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): An official of the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has termed participation of education officials and workers of a government-owned textile mill in campaign rally for President Hamid Karzai in the northern Baghlan province as illegal.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Pamphlets claiming that President Hamid Karzai will withdraw in favour of his key rival Dr. Abdullah Abdullah have secretly been distributed in some districts of the northern Balkh province

HERAT CITY (PAN): Campaign officials of two potential presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Mirwais Yasini on Thursday blamed Karzai's team for violating election laws.

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): In violation of the electoral law, officials of a government-owned fabric factory and national television Thursday took part in a gathering in favour of President Hamid Karzai's reelection bid in the northern Baghlan province.

KHOST CITY (PAN): An amount of 500 afghanis was paid to each participant of a public meeting organised in support of President Hamid Karzais election campaign in KhostCity on Wednesday.