IECC invalidates ballots of over 170 polling stations

The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) has invalidated ballots of 174 polling stations, insisting that it has addressed 80 percent of the registered complaints and that 119 cases have been referred to judiciary institutions in this regard.

The IECC had registered over 12,000 complaints regarding the last month’s chaotic parliamentary elections. The commission on Monday said that it has addressed more than 10,000 complaints so far and that has invalidated ballots of 174 voting stations.

“There is no assurance that we could be able to accurately address all of the received complaints,” Said the IECC Spokesman Ali Reza Rohani.

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Ghani Thanks Global Partners For $15.2 bn USD Pledge

President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday night extended his heartfelt gratitude to the international community for the $15.2 billion USD pledged for the years 2017 – 2020.

Addressing a joint press conference with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Ghani said all plans prepared ahead of the two-day Brussels Summit on Afghanistan were drawn up carefully and based on relativity to the lives of the people of Afghanistan.

Ghani said the success of Afghanistan so far has been through team work but that going forward, it is essential that this dialogue continues and that it yields results.

He said that not only has Afghanistan secured financial and development support at Brussels but in the past three months the Afghan private sector has pledged to also invest $1.1 billion USD in the country.

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