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Speaking at a press conference in Kabul on Monday, Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani, the Chairman of the Independent Elections Commission (IEC), rejected allegations that Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail, the IEC Chief Electoral Officer, was involved in fraud during Saturday's runoff.

Despite the Independent Election Commission’s (IEC) emphasis on its employees being the subject of fewer complaints in the second round than they were in the first, according to the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Monday, election employees are the main focus of the complaints it has so far received.

Jakarta. Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko Widodo accepted the endorsement of the Indonesian Farmers’ Association (HKTI) on Monday at the organization’s anniversary celebration at Balai Kartini convention center in South Jakarta, despite Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party candidate Prabowo Subianto’s longtime association with the group.

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, a senior academic and diplomat nominated June 16 by Turkey’s two major opposition parties as their joint candidate to run against an expected bid by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the August presidential election, has actually become a more visible figure for the Turkish public after his election as the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 2004.

GILGIT: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has turned on the pressure to hold elections early in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B).

These efforts are sharply in contrast to the resolution passed by the G-B Assembly two months ago which stated that elections will be held after December 10, 2014 – the date the current government will complete its five-year term.

“Given the tough weather conditions of G-B, you can’t hold elections after October and winter only eases up following April or May,” the regional chief of PML-N, Hafeezur Rahman, toldThe Express Tribune on Sunday.

A number of former Egyptian military figures are reemerging in the political arena alongside "remnants" of the Mubarak regime, fighting political battles ahead of the parliamentary elections, in an effort to draw a new partisan map that would dominate the new parliament.

The Kataeb Party Monday called for the immediate election of a president and urged teachers to start grading official exams, following a union announcement that they would boycott grading until the new salary scale is passed.

In a statement after the weekly meeting of its political bureau, the party said that "in light of the dangerous events in Iraq, and the spread of fundamentalist movements in the Arab world," electing a president was necessary so that Lebanon's democratic political institutions would function normally.