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Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday announced at a press conference in Kabul that he has cut off ties with the election commissions and pulled his observers. He claimed President Hamid Karzai has not been neutral in the election process and demanded a freeze on vote counting.

The Lawyers Union of Afghanistan called on the presidential candidates to avoid making their way to the presidential palace through fraudulent votes on Tuesday at press conference.

Lawyers of the union said that the Independent Election Commission (IEC) violated not only the election law, but the constitution of Afghanistan in many areas of the election process in both rounds of elections.

The election of new municipal councils in Darj (near Ghadames), Ejhraa (near Kufra), Harawa (50 kilometres east of Sirte), Kabaw, Sidra, Tocra and Yefren and has kicked off with the Central Committee for Municipal Councils Elections (CCMCE) starting voter and candidate registration in the towns. However, no date has as yet been set for polling in the seven municipalities.

Jakarta. Both candidates running for president in the July 9 election appear to have a spotless record on corruption, but the baggage brought by the parties in their respective coalitions could prove their undoing, an antigraft activist warns.

The two main opposition parties are planning to establish a joint election campaign center for an efficient bid by their joint candidate, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, in a rare instance of cooperation between Turkish political parties. 

“We will finalize our road map in four or five days. Our initial decision is that each party will carry out its own work for İhsanoğlu’s bid,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), told daily Hürriyet on June 17. 

The suggestion that elections in G-B be conducted under the supervision of Shah’s government was floated by PML-N’s regional chief Hafeezur Rahman a day earlier in a bid to turn up pressure to hold the polls sooner.

Egypt's new Cabinet was sworn in Tuesday by the country's newly elected President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.

The swearing-in ceremony took place in the capital, and state television aired live footage from the swearing-in inside the presidential palace.

The government of about 30 ministers - including four women and several technocrats - is led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehlib, who also served as the interim premier for the past five months.