It looks like we’re in the middle of nowhere. You’d miss the house if it weren’t for the colourful lights that guide you to it — on the outskirts of Jamshoro. Saif Samejo likes his space.
The Afghan government has just had an election for the first time since the end of the Taliban Rule when the United States invaded the State in 2001. The election is for the Afghanistan parliament which is composed of two houses. The upper house has veto power over the larger lower house. It is similar to the United State’s Congress… Read more »
Kabul, Afghanistan – Pashtana Arabzai feels she has done her homework and says it is only a matter of days before she realises her ambition. For the past three weeks, she has travelled back and forth across Afghanistan‘s capital, Kabul, trying to convince voters to back her in Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Arabzai is among the 118 women candidates trying to… Read more »
Kabul, Afghanistan – Polls opened in Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary election on Saturday amid security threats from the Taliban armed group who vowed to disrupt the “bogus” vote. Voting centres opened at 7am (02:30GMT) and will close at 4pm (12:30GMT). Close to nine million Afghans have registered to take part in the vote, which was first scheduled for 2015.
The top security leadership of Afghanistan’s Kandahar has been assassinated in a brazen gun attack claimed by the Taliban, leaving a power vacuum in the crucial province ahead of Saturday’s elections. General Abdul Raziq, one of Afghanistan’s most powerful security officials, was killed along with Kandahar’s intelligence chief, Abdul Mohmin, when a bodyguard opened fire after a meeting in the… Read more »
Despite Taliban threats of violence to disrupt last Saturday’s parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, many Afghans showed up in large numbers to vote. Their commitment once again debunked the myths and caricatures so readily put forth by Western commentators that Afghans do not want democracy. Over and over the Afghan people have shown that they want accountability from their leaders, inclusion,… Read more »