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Kabul, 2 oct (PL) El diputado Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf renunció hoy a su puesto en la Cámara de Diputados, con el objetivo de presentarse como candidato a las próximas elecciones presidenciales.

Sayyaf afirmó que en caso de salir airoso, el ministro de Agua y Energía, Muhammad Ismail, ocupará el cargo de vicepresidente primero, mientras que anunciará en breve su elección para la vicepresidencia segunda.

KABUL (PAN): One of the new Independent Election Commission (IEC) members is a doctor of philosophy, six have master’s degrees and another is a graduate.

Last week, President Hamid Karzai appointed Abdul Rahman Hotaki, Gulalai Achakzai, Sharifa Zurmati, Ahmad Yousaf Nuristani, Sareer Ahmad Barmak, Laila Ihrari, Qazi Suleman Hamid, Mohammad Aziz Bakhtiari and Mohammad Hussain Garziwani as IEC members.

The Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of the Parliament, passed on Wednesday the new electoral law after long debating and with some amendment in it.

Over the past 11 years, parliamentary elections have been conducted under legislative decrees, but five months back, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) prepared the draft law and sent to the Wolesi Jirga after the .

President Hamid Karzai's political rival Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday called on the nation not to allow the incumbent government to prolong its stay in power by interfering in next year’s presidential election.

You should not allow one or two groups to rule you by misusing your sincere intention to cast ballots

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Wednesday said it had adopted a new voter registration plan for presidential and provincial council polls, accepting both old voting cards as well as computerised identity cards. 

IEC Secretary Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhel told a news conference in Kabul that the old voting cards would be acceptable without the panel’s approval. The plan was approved after a series of consultative meetings with stakeholders, including mainstream political parties and civil society organisations.

The acting head of the Jamiat-i-Islami party, Salahuddin Rabbani, on Friday demanded reservation of seats for political groups in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

Los talibán afganos han anunciado este martes que dos de sus representantes participarán el 17 de diciembre en una conferencia en París sobre el futuro de Afganistán, aunque han resaltado que esto no implica la apertura de conversaciones con Kabul.