Despite pulling off a safer presidential election than expected, Afghanistan’s 28th polls are scrambling with legitimacy issue due to low turnout, in which the two front-runners already claimed victory before ballots are tallied and signaling they would not accept defeat. Election officials have hailed the recent election as the “most …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says experts from the German company of DERMALOG have been called to come to Kabul for resolving of problems affected its computer system that was hacked earlier. According to reports, Indian hackers broke the commission’s computers benefiting a certain presidential candidate …

The right of access to information is essentially the lifeblood of an informed citizenry because otherwise, in the absence of information, people remain in dark and unaware regarding their government’s performance. Afghanistan has made considerable progress since the Access to Information (ATI) Law was approved by the president in 2014 …

AT News Report KABUL: The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) claims of threats posed by some candidates and their supporters not to reveal evidences it holds about fraud cases in the September 28th presidential election. Naeim Ayoubzada, head of the body, said on Wednesday that they have reliable evidences …

AT News Report KABUL: The US Embassy in Kabul in a tweet on Wednesday called on “everyone to respect the time required” for the Afghan election organizations to finish processing the votes, saying it is “better to be right than fast.” This comes US deputy ambassador, Karen Decker after visiting …

AT News Report KABUL: The International Day for the Universal Access to Information was marked Wednesday in Kabul amid dozens of complaints made by journalists and media runners about many challenges they are facing in access to information. Reporters say that government officials do not share timely information with them …

AT News Report KABUL: The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), an electoral monitoring body, reject statement by the US embassy in Kabul that the presidential election was free of fraud as unrealistic, saying that the independent election commission was paving the ground for fraud. It alleged on Wednesday that …

US Military in Afghanistan reacted to UNAMA’s report on civilian casualties, saying US forces fighting in a complex environment against those who intentionally kill and hide behind civilians AT News Report KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report on Wednesday saying that at least 30 …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 76 Taliban fighters were killed during ground and air operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in southern Ghazni province, military official said Wednesday. A press statement issued by 203rd Thunder Corps, said that Afghan Air Forces (AAF) has carried out airstrike in …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Germany has deported another group of failed Afghan asylum seekers to their country, according to the dpa news agency. Forty-four Afghans arrived in Kabul on October 9 — the 28th such group that has been deported in less than three years. Since December 2016, 720 Afghans …