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Selecting Committee Begins Review of Documents From Electoral Commissioner Candidates
The Selecting Committee begins reviewing the documents of commissioner candidates for the electoral commissions after receiving more than six hundred requests.
“We begin the practical work on reviewing the documents of commissioner candidates and our procedures have been finalized. We are trying to prepare a list of candidates during the procedures,” said Yousuf Rashid, member of the selecting committee.
Meanwhile, the electoral monitoring institutions expect the selecting committee to have a transparent process.
“The process moves forward and we hope the needed transparency considered up to the end of the work,” said Rahmatullah Salehi, head of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan.
A number of parliament members called on the selecting committee to introduce the commissioner candidates to president as soon as possible.
“We hope the candidates to be introduced to president that we can go for holding the elections,” said Khalid Pashton, member of parliament.
The Selecting Committee of electoral commissions begins work after months of bargaining; people hope this commission works transparently and introduce the commissioners in the nearest time.
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More than 800 Afghan refugees deported from Pakistan in two days
As many as 837 Afghan refugees have been forced to return to their country through Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings in the last two days, officials announced on Saturday.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement that 90 families comprising 468 people returned through Torkham crossing.
Another 67 families comprising 369 people returned through Spin Boldak crossing, it said.
The returnees have been introduced to international organizations to receive aid, and the Islamic Emirate has also paid 10,000 Afghanis to each family.
Pakistani government launched the second phase of deporting illegal refugees five days ago.
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Iran executes four Afghan prisoners
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
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Roof collapse kills two in Helmand
Two people were killed after roof of their house collapsed in southern Helmand province on Friday night, officials said.
Abdul Bari Rashid, head of information and culture in Helmand, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in Tajkan village of Gershak district due to heavy rain.
According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
This comes as 10 people have died and six others have been injured as a result of the floods in Helmand province in the last one week.
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