herat

Kabul, Oct 13 - The Electoral Complaints Commission has annulled all the votes cast in the province of Herat for the brother of Herat’s mayor, Muhammad Salim Taraki, and filed a formal complaint against the mayor with the attorney general.

In today’s local news: competing alliances are already claiming significant numbers of seats in the Wolesi Jirga elections; Taliban are reported to have been cutting off fingers in Herat; and the governor of Wardak is claiming the election was a success despite security issues in his province.

Opposition Claims Victory in Parliamentary Elections
Mandegar, Dari daily, Sept 22, 2010

In today’s news: SIGAR releases new report on “lessons learned” from 2009 elections. NATO acknowledges it may have caused civilian casualties in airstrike earlier this month on a parliamentary candidate in Takhar. Two killed in Logar yesterday in continuing protests against now-cancelled Quran-burning event. The Obama administration plans to scale back anti-corruption pushes in Afghanistan, the Post and WSJ report. Petraeus issues new contracting guidelines.