Afghan Elections

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  "My Dear Friend...": Ashraf Ghani On PM Modi's Call On Afghan Polls

  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him to "congratulate on winning the preliminary results" in the Afghan election. Afghan election officials on Sunday announced that President Ghani secured 50.64 per cent votes amid allegations of fraud and malpractice in the September 28 election.

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  Afghan Election Sees Big Drop In Voter Numbers: Unofficial Estimate

  Afghanistan's presidential election turnout is unofficially estimated at just over 2 million people or about 20 percent of registered voters, an official said on Sunday, amid concern that low participation could mar the vote.

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  Afghan Voters Head To Polls Amid Deadly Violence

  Afghans voted in presidential elections amid tight security Saturday, even as insurgents attacked polling centres in a series of blasts across the country that left at least one person dead.

• Abdullah Abdullah Congratulates Afghan President-Elect Ashraf Ghani

  Afghan election contender Abdullah Abdullah on Thursday congratulated President-elect Ashraf Ghani on his victory and vowed to support him in a national unity government.

• Afghan Presidential Inauguration Delayed With Candidates Deep in Conflict

  Afghanistan's next president was meant to be inaugurated on Monday but the deadline has been pushed back to September 2 as rival candidates remain deadlocked over who won an election meant to mark the troubled country's first democratic transfer of power.

• Afghan War Inflicting Devastating Toll on Civilians - United Nations

  Afghanistan's war is inflicting an increasingly devastating toll on the civilian population, with the number of casualties rising by almost a quarter in the first half of this year, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday.

• Abdullah Abdullah Claims Victory in Contested Afghan Election

  Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory on Tuesday in Afghanistan's disputed election, blaming fraud for putting him behind poll rival Ashraf Ghani in preliminary results.

• Afghan Election Rivals Square Up For Results Showdown

  Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates on Monday ratcheted up tension ahead of the release of results, with one campaign team preparing for victory and the other rejecting the vote count in a dispute that could trigger instability.

• Afghan Presidential Poll: Run-Off Announced

  The Afghan Presidential election, as expected, goes in to a run-off with the top contender Dr Abdullah Abdullah to take on the second placed candidate Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.

• Afghan Presidential Election Heads for a Run-Off in June

  The Afghan election headed for a second round run-off between former opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani after final results on Thursday showed no candidate had won an absolute majority.

• Afghan election season off to a messy start

  With Afghanistan's next presidential election just five months away, authorities say they are facing a possible repeat of the abuses that have discredited the country's efforts to build a democracy.

• Last-minute drama as Afghan presidential front-runners sign up

  Three men considered front runners in Afghanistan's presidential election staged dramatic last-minute nominations on Sunday, the start of what is expected to be a chaotic but critical race for the palace in the first democratic transfer of power.

• Caught on tape, a snippet of Afghan voting fraud

  On the audiotape, two men are heard speaking in Dari, with the distinct accent of the western city of Herat, as they negotiate terms for rigging more than a dozen races in Afghan's parliamentary elections.One of the men, according to the country's Independent Election Commission, is Abdul Rashid Irshad, a low-level functionary in the commission's K...

• Opposition sees gains after Afghan voting

  Opposition candidates are cautiously optimistic that they may have greatly improved their strength in the next Parliament, despite widespread charges of fraud and low voter turnout that may yet discredit the results of Saturday's election. The opposition alliance headed by Abdullah Abdullah, who lost a tainted presidential election to Hamid Karzai ...

• After Afghan vote, complaints of fraud surface

  The farmers in Nagahan, a village in Kandahar Province, lined up early to cast their votes on Saturday, but there were no ballots and no ballot boxes, making the election seem a cruel joke."We waited until afternoon for the election material to arrive," said Haji-Qaum Jan Aka, 50, a village elder. "Then what did we get? Ballot boxes, but when we op...