Afghanistan Elections

A committee is due to start to investigate the case of lawmaker Samin Barakzai, who has been on hunger strike over election fraud, for the twelfth consecutive day, the Ministry of Parli...

Hamid Karzai, through Wolesi Jirga’s speaker, has asked female lawmaker Samin Barakzai, who has been on hunger strike for more than a week, to choose two representatives to investigate ...

Ten years after the invasion of Afghanistan, the Stop The War Coalition, CND and MAB held a lengthy mass rally in Trafalgar Square before marching to Downing Street to demand an end to ...

A woman parliamentarian, unseated by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) in August, continues her fast in front of the Wolesi Jirga for the fifth consecutive day. Afghanistan, Kab...

Outraged over the non-implementation of the special tribunal's verdict, a number of unsuccessful 2010 parliamentary election candidates, coming all the way from central Maidan Ward...

Failed candidates of the last year’s parliamentary election, and thousands of their supporters, some carrying weapons, have staged a huge demonstration in Maidan Shahr, the capital city...

In a symbolic display of support to Khpalwak Lakankhel, a failed parliamentary election runner, protesters blocked Kabul-Jalalabad highway in Pul-e-Charkhi area of Kabul. Afghanistan. 3...

Security forces barred nine unseated Wolesi Jirga members from entering Parliament, to allow as many newly declared winners of last year's parliamentary election to replace them, i...

Up to 700 Afghans marched through Kabul to protest against the decision of the commission to throw nine lawmakers out of parliament in a dispute over vote fraud. Afghanistan. 23rd Augus...

Hundreds of Afghans marched through Kabul to protest against a decision by the election commission to remove nine lawmakers from parliament due to allegations of election fraud. Afghani...

The Palestinian team made the most of its rare homeground advantage, advancing to the second round of Asian World Cup qualifying after a 1-1 draw with Afghanistan gave them a 3-1 aggreg...

Parliamentarians cast green votes in a Wolesi Jirga session. Kabul, Afghanistan. 25 June 2011.

The Wolesi Jirga, the lower house in Afghanistan’s parliament, issued a vote of no confidence against Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Alako on Thursday after he failed to appear before ...

Parliamentarians raise green cards in favor of a call demanding membership of the country in Afghan-Pak-India-Turkmenistan gas pipeline in Kabul.

The extraordinary story of Jaco Van Gass and his recovery from injuries received whilst on a tour of duty in Afghanistan; and who is now training for an expedition to the geographic Nor...

The Hizb ut-Tahrir Movement, an international Islamic political organisation whose goal it is for all Muslim countries to unify as one Islamic state or caliphate, protested today outsid...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai opens parliament ending a standoff with lawmakers, but setting the stage for a longer battle against an assembly he has long ignored. Kabul, Afghanistan. 2...

Afghan, Iranian and Palestinian refugees organised a press conference today in front of the Greek Parliament to discuss their plight as asylum seekers. Athens,Greece. 21/01/2011

Afghan refugees that are gathered in Propylaia (Academic University) seeking political asylum, went on hunger strike and six of them have sewn their lips in protest. Athens, Greece. 29/...

Today Election commission officials announced the final result of second parliamentary election. Kabul, Afghanistan. 24/11/2010