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Addressing a crowd of women in Kabul on Monday, presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai promised to address the many challenges facing women across the country and to form a more inclusive government, including the nomination of a female to the Afghan Supreme Court.

Bishkek, June 9 / Kabar /. Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) will assist Kyrgyzstan in combating corruption. Executive director of GOPAC Akaash Maharaj said today in Bishkek during the International Conference “The role of parliamentarism in promoting state anti-corruption policy in the Kyrgyz Republic".

Jakarta. Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto will face off tonight in the first debate of the presidential election campaign — streamed live on this website from 7:30 p.m. The debate, sponsored by BeritaSatu, focuses on the issues of law enforcement, clean government and democratization, spanning the ubiquity of corruption in Indonesia to the country’s ongoing efforts to professionalize its civil service.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday rejected Afghan claims it was linked to an attack on presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah last week that left 12 people dead ahead of an election run-off.

The denial came a day after Kabul accused “foreign intelligence services” — a thinly veiled reference to Islamabad — of being behind the two blasts, including a suicide bombing.

“We firmly reject any insinuation of Pakistan’s involvement in the attack,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said in a statement.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has firmly rejected allegations of its involvement in the attack on Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah and termed them as irresponsible.

"Pakistan is deeply disappointed by such allegations because they serve to vitiate the positive environment created between the two countries through constructive efforts over the past months," Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in the first ever reaction to such allegations.

With less than 24 hours to go before Israel's new president is declared, Arutz Sheva provides a brief biography of each of the candidates still in the running for the largely symbolic - yet highly prestigious - post.

The vote will take place in the Knesset, not as part of a general election, with the candidate receiving an absolute majority of MKs' votes taking the spot. If no candidate receives an absolute majority the Knesset votes again in a run-off between the top two candidates.

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Hedayat Amin Arsala, former presidential candidate, endorsed presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai in Kabul on Monday saying that i joined Ghani because of the similarity on our thoughts and programs.

Arsala said that as a team they "will work together to bring peace to Afghanistan." He asked his supporters to vote for Dr. Ghani-Ahmadzai this coming Saturday.

“Today I announced my support to Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, because he has the capability to manage the national affairs of the country in the future and restore peace,” Arsala said.

The National Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday announced that 195,000 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were deployed in different regions of the country to maintain security for the June 14 runoff.

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) reaffirmed their determination to foil any plot against the election process. Up to 400,000 Afghan security personnel are cooperating and are on alert to provide foolproof security for the elections.