(Last Updated On: December 19, 2020)
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Saturday that the delayed parliamentary elections in central Ghazni province will be held in October next year.
Addressing a press conference, Hawa Alam Nuristani, the chairperson of the IEC, stated that the provincial council, municipal, and parliamentary elections will be held in Ghazni simultaneously.
The parliamentary elections were held on October 28, 2018, but elections in Ghazni were canceled due to security issues.
Nuristani meanwhile urged the government to provide the budget and maintain security around the process.
“Operational plans for Ghazni and the provincial council was submitted to the Presidential Palace. The elections are set to be held in Mizan, 1400, Persian Calendar, (October 2021). We have signed the document of the project with UNAMA.
(Last Updated On: December 19, 2020)
Kabul police said on Saturday that a woman from the Yaka Toot area in the capital was killed by her husband after giving birth to a baby girl.
Police said the woman was killed on Friday in PD9 after she gave birth to the couple’s second daughter.
According to police, the husband and his family members fled the area but efforts are underway to track him down and arrest him.
Neighbors meanwhile said Feraidon had also been involved in several other crimes recently.
The murder of the women for failing to give birth to a boy has prompted an outcry among women’s rights advocates and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) stated that the act is indicative of the high levels of domestic violence and violence against women in Afghanistan.