Nangarhar Campaign

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Traders in eastern Nangarhar province have urged Wolesi Jirgacandidates to address problems the business community has been facing after winning the Oct 20 elections.
The businessmen raised their demand during a roundtable talks with Wolesi Jirga candidates. The event was organized by the Entrepreneurs Global Support Organization here.
Dr. Sher Ali Mohammad, the organization member, said the purpose of the roundtable to hear economic policies of the Wolesi Jirga hopefuls.

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 14 people were killed and another more than 40 wounded in a suicide attack targeting a Wolesi Jirga hopeful’s campaign office in Kama district of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday.
Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast took place in Sangarsai area of the district at around 1:30pm.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Supportive of Zalmai Rassoul in the April 5 vote, the Pashayee tribe in the eastern zone on Tuesday announced to back Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in the second round of the presidential polls.
The tribe made the decision at a well-attended meeting in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province. Tribal elder Noor Agha Malikzai said the Pashayees would vote for Ahmadzai on June 14.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Chief campaigner for Zalmai Rassoul during the April 5 presidential elections in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday declared support to frontrunner Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
The announcement was made at a gathering, where a number of religious scholars and Sikh community members voiced their support for Ghani in the runoff election due on June 14.
Participants said they were optimistic that the turnout in the second round of elections would be higher than the previous round in eastern provinces.

LASHKARGAH/JALALABAD/ASADABAD (Pajhwok): As the April 5 elections draw closer, the presidential race has gained momentum, with candidates wooing voters in several provinces of the country on Monday.
Huge public gatherings were held in different provinces in support of Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, Mohammad Shafiq Gul Agha Sherzai and Zalmai Rasoul.
A large number of people from different tribes, including Alizai, Baloch and Noorzai, gathered in southern Helmand province and announced their support to Ahmadzai.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Leading presidential candidate Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Thursday said he would turn eastern provinces into a huge economic, transit trade hub and a defensive gate to the central capital Kabul.
He was addressing a campaign rally in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, where tens of thousands of people from neighbouring Kunar, Nuristan and Laghman provinces had arrived.
Religious scholars and tribal elders from the eastern provinces also took part in the rally.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF/JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two gatherings were held in support of presidential candidates Hidayat Amin Arsala and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah in eastern Nangarhar and northern Balkh provinces on Sunday.
The public meeting held in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar, was held in favour of Arsala. Fifty percent of people were living below the poverty line, Arsala said, pledging creation of job opportunities.
Arsala promised taking revolutionary steps to make the country a hub of economic activity in the region if he won the presidential ballot.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Presidential contender Gul Agha Sherzai on Monday said he was in talks with a number of rival candidates on forming an election alliance and the outcome would be known soon.
“We are in negotiations with Abdul Rahim Wardak, Hidayat Amin Arsala, Qutbuddin Hilal and others to make an alliance. I will not quit in anyone’s favour,” Sherzai told Pajhwok Afghan News during an exclusive interview.
Sherzai, who arrived in eastern Nangarhar province as part of his campaign, came hard on President Hamid Karzai for his unstable domestic and foreign policies.

ALALABAD/KABUL (Pajhwok): Hundreds of people attended campaign rallies organised in support of presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Gul Agha Sherzai in eastern Laghman and the central capital Kabul on Thursday.
Participants of the rally in Laghman voiced support to Ahmadzai, a former finance minister. A campaigner for Ahmadzai, Haji Noor Mohammad, told the gathering the people of Laghman considered it an honour to support Ahmadzai, the world’s second top thinker.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday promised to rebuild Nangarhar’s canal system and construct mega hydropower dams on Kunar and Kama rivers.
Abdullah, who finished second behind President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 elections, told his first-ever campaign rally in in Jalalabad he would initiate work on small hydropower plants along the slopes of Spin Ghar mountain.