El economista Ashraf Ghani ha sido proclamado finalmente hoy domingo ganador de las elecciones presidenciales en Afganistán. El anuncio se ha producido poco después de que Ghani alcanzara un acuerdo de reparto del poder con su rival Abdullah Abdullah, quien desde hace tres meses cuestionaba el resultado electoral. Sus acusaciones de fraude no sólo ensombrecieron los comicios, sino que han dado alas a los insurgentes talibanes en víspera de la retirada de las tropas extranjeras.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Sunday the vote audit process had been completed and its results would be shared soon with the electoral watchdog.

IEC Chairman Ahmad Yousaf Nuristan told a press conference in Kabul results of 405 suspect ballot boxes were re-examined for technical reasons.

El presidente kirguistaní Almazbek Atambayev tomó parte en la Cumbre en Dushanbe, Tayikistán. Durante su dicsurso, Atambayev agradeció al presidente tayiko Emomali Rahmon por su hospitalidad y excelente organización del meeting y durante su presidencia de la OCS. Para Kirguistán este es un año clave en lo que se refiere a su integración en la Unión Eurasiática, proyecto no vinculado a la OCS, pero igualmente liderado por Rusia, país que presidirá la OCS durante el próximo curso y que afronta en la actualidad una tensión máxima con Occidente. 

The House of Representatives passed its Anti-Terrorism Law today. According to an HoR official, it was approved by a majority of the 116 members who took part in the vote.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Monday reiterated his stance, saying he rejected the result of the mid-June runoff.

He renewed his commitment to defending people’s votes and the election of new leadership based on genuine ballots. But Abdullah said he would not accept a government elected through fraud.

Addressing a gathering of supporters in Kabul, he said the international community had evinced its interest in facilitating a solution to the election crisis.

Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni has delayed presenting his new slimmed-down government to the House of Representatives, its spokesman Faraj Hashim has told the Libya Herald. An announcement of the cabinet which is to have between eight and ten ministers was expected in the next 24 hours.  According to Hashim, the delay is so that Thinni can “study more candidates”.

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab chapter president Ejaz Chaudhry has announced the party will not take part in any by-election in the province after resigning from its Punjab Assembly seats.

Mr Chaudhry said the PTI would also not take part in the by-election being held in PP-162 (Sheikhupura) on September 22.

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday said that the delay in announcing the final results has no link to the presidential candidates' talks and that the election process moving forward normally.

IEC spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor said that the reason for the delay in announcing the final results is due to the technicalities of the election process.

"There are technical works that are being completed, such as entering the checklists into the system," Noor said reassuring the public.

The Independent Election Commission's (IEC) spokesman, Noor Mohammad Noor said that the 100 percent audit of vote's process has been completed after 48 days on Thursday night, which was set to build confidence between the two candidates so that issues do not arise in the future.

Noor said that the majority of fraud took place by "the government, government officials and supporters of both candidates and not by the IEC employees." Currently, the IEC is working on entering the checklists into the database.