| Press Releases |
November |
| 11/12/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) announced November 12 that it had completed the certification of all final results from this year's historic Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council Elections. Read more in... English | Dari |
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| 11/10/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) announced November 10 that thirty three provinces had now declared certified final results from this year's historic Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections. Paktia, Paktika, Nangahar and Kabul were the latest provinces to join the list with certified final results already declared by the JEMB.
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| 11/07/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) certified final results for a further six provinces yesterday. Balkh , Herat , Ghazni, Khost, Kunduz and Takhar became the latest Afghan provinces with certified final results from the September Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections.
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October |
| 10/27/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) October 27 certified eleven more final results from this
year’s Wolesi Jirga and Provisional Council elections. Badghis, Daikundi, Faryab, Ghor, Logar,
Laghman, Jowzjan, Nuristan, Uruzghan, Wardak and Zabul joined the list of provinces whose election
results are now final. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 10/23/2005 |
Parwan and Panjsher joined the growing list of provinces to declare certified final results from this year's historic Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections announced the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) October 23.
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| 10/20/2005 |
Bamyan became Afghanistan’s fifth province to release certified final results from this year’s landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial council elections, the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) announced October 20. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 10/18/2005 |
The drive to release certified final results from last month’s historic Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections continued October 18 with the publication of certified final results for Kapisa and Samangan provinces, the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) announced today. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 10/16/2005 |
The first certified results from this years’ Wolesi Jirga and Provisional Council elections were
announced October 16 by the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) for Farah and Nimroz provinces. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 10/13/2005 |
The announcement of provisional results from this year’s landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections continues with the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) releasing results for two more provinces; Jowzjan and Wardak. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 10/11/2005 |
The drive to release further provisional results from this year's landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections continued October 11 with the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB).
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| 10/06/2005 |
With millions of ballot papers from this year’s landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections now counted the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) October 6 announced the first provisional results for Nimroz and Farah provinces. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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September |
| 09/27/2005 |
As counting for this year’s landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections was in full swing across Afghanistan the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) announced partial results for the first eight provinces to complete counting ballot papers from at least ten per cent of their polling stations. Read more in English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/27/2005 |
Two election officials working for the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) returned safely to the Badakshan capital, Feyzabad September 24 after having completed a 18 day round trip trek by jeep, horse and walking to deliver election materials to polling stations in Pamir Khord, a remote area of Wakhan in Badakshan province. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/25/2005 |
As counting for this year’s landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections continued across
Afghanistan the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) announced the first partial results for three
provinces, Uruzgan, Farah and Nimroz. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/20/2005 |
The task of counting millions of ballot papers for Afghanistan 's landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections began today September 20. Ballot papers will be counted at thirty four provincial Count Centres in thirty two provincial centres. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/09/2005 |
The intake of millions of ballots and polling materials is well under way across Afghanistan after Sunday's elections for the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of National Assembly) and Provincial Councils. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/18/2005 |
Polls closed across Afghanistan at 4.00pm Sunday after 10 hours of calm and steady voting in the country's first post-conflict legislative elections. Read more in... English |
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| 09/18/2005 |
Voters flocked to thousands of polling stations across Afghanistan early Sunday to cast ballots in Afghanistan's landmark first post-conflict legislative elections. Read more in... English | Pashto |
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| 09/18/2005 |
Following a decision by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) to re-instate Zabul Wolesi Jirga candidate, Mawen Nazer Mohammad, the Joint Election Management Body confirmed that he will be eligible for election. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/18/2005 |
Polls opened across Afghanistan from 6.00 am Sunday, heralding the next major step in Afghanistan's progress to democracy after a quarter century of conflict. Read more in... English |
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| 09/16/2005 |
Since the publication of the Certified Candidate List on July 12 and subsequent printing of ballot papers, five (5)
candidates have died and twenty nine (29) candidates have been removed by the Electoral Complaints Commission. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
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| 09/12/2005 |
In less than a week, 12.5 million Afghans will have their first opportunity in more than three decades to elect a national legislature and 34 Provincial Councils, and thereby complete Afghanistan 's transition to democracy as mapped out by the Bonn peace process of December 2001.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/11/2005 |
Reports circulating in some media alleging that JEMBS elections staff issued fake voter registration cards are incorrect. The JEMB wishes to clarify that in separate cases two former district-level election workers are being investigated by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) over allegations that they each stole between 100 and 262 blank voter registration cards.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/07/2005 |
As Afghanistan's Kuchi (nomad) community undertakes its annual migration to lower grounds ahead of the approaching winter, they will be able to stop at any of 1,616 Kuchi polling stations across the country to cast votes in the September 18 Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of National Assembly) elections. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/07/2005 |
Polling for the September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections will begin at 6.00 am
across Afghanistan, one hour earlier than originally planned. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 09/03/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body Secretariat will launch a daily television election program this weekend on RTA state-run television. The "Witness Program" will be broadcast nightly after the 7.00 pm Dari News and 8.00 pm Pashto news, starting Saturday September 3.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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August |
| 08/31/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body has accredited around 2,200 independent observers and more
than 30,000 political party and candidate agents to scrutinize the 2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial
Council elections, JEMB Chairman Bissmillah Bissmil announced. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 08/28/2005 |
More than 600 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council election candidates have taken the
opportunity to broadcast campaign messages to voters at no cost, through the Joint Electoral
Management Body Media Commission’s Sponsored Advertising Campaign. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 08/24/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body has taken a number of steps to protect the integrity and security of all ballots cast in the September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections, JEMB Chairman Bissmillah Bissmil announced. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 08/18/2005 |
Last night a Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) staff member, Mr. Gul Ahmad Nazari, was attacked at his home in Herat. During the attack Mr Nazari received serious injuries and is currently receiving medical attention. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 08/15/2005 |
The official campaign period for the Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council Elections will begin this Wednesday August 17 2005 and will continue until September 15, with a 48hr ‘campaign silence
period’ before polling day on September 18.... Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 08/10/2005 |
The challenging task of transporting ballot materials to polling stations across Afghanistan has started,
announced the JEMB on August 10. Read more in ... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 08/03/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body urges all Afghans to uphold and respect the rights of all candidates, men and women, to campaign for elections to the Wolesi Jirga or Provincial Councils... Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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July |
| 07/29/2005 |
Plans for Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council Elections moved a step closer Friday with the arrival of the first batch of ballot papers from London on an Antonov AN 124 plane.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/27/2005 |
On behalf of the JEMB and JEMBS I would like welcome you all here today. As far as you all know that JEMB and JEMBS have always tried to have good relations...
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| 07/25/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body condemns the killing of civic educator Hamid Mohammad Sarwar in Paktika province last Wednesday, July 20.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/21/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) established the Media Commission on July 19, 2005. The Commission is composed of three Afghan and two international Commissioners.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/21/2005 |
Ballots cast in the September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections will be counted at
provincial level in one count centre per province, the Joint Electoral Management Body announced
Thursday. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/21/2005 |
On Sunday July 17 th at around 10.30am, a female Afghan election worker was shot and wounded in Agasi village, Kamdesh district of Nuristan. Read more in...
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| 07/19/2005 |
The Update of Afghanistan's Voter Registry will conclude across the country on Thursday, bringing Afghans one step closer to landmark legislative elections on September 18.
Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/17/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body on Sunday launched a seven week Voter Registration for
Afghan refugees who are returning with UNHCR assistance from neighbouring countries between July
17 and September 8, 2005. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/12/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body on Tuesday certified the Final List of Candidates for the
September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/12/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body has decided the following policy on Election Campaign
Advertisements during the August 17-September 15 Official Campaign Period. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/07/2005 |
Under electoral campaign regulations newly approved by the Joint Electoral Management Body, candidates for the September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections may promote their political platforms. Egnlish | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/05/2005 |
Candidates wishing to withdraw from contesting the September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections have until Thursday July 7 to notify the Joint Electoral Management Body. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/04/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body is deeply saddened by the killing Sunday of cleric Mohammad
Nabi Mesbah, who was a member of the Provincial Election Commission in Kandahar. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/04/2005 |
Afghan voters with questions on the 2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections may now call a toll-free phone number from anywhere in Afghanistan, and have their questions answered personally. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 07/02/2005 |
Today July 2nd, the Joint Electoral Management Body, on advice from the Electoral Complaints Commission, has
published a provisional list of candidates cleared to run in September’s election. Read more... |
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June |
| 06/30/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body will publish Provisional Candidate Lists in each provincial office on Saturday July 2, following. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/29/2005 |
JEMB Chairman Bissmillah Bissmil gave a progress report on the first four days of Voter
Registration Update Read more... |
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| 06/26/2005 |
The update of the Voter Registry is under way across Afghanistan, with most of the 1,052 Voter
Registration Stations in 720 locations open and operating since Saturday June 25. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/26/2005 |
The six-day Display and Challenge period, in which the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) accepted challenges to the candidacy of citizens standing for the Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council
elections, came to a close on June 9. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/25/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body strongly condemns the attack on an election convoy on
Tuesday, June 21 in which the husband of a female election worker was killed. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/20/2005 |
The JEMB has banned all election campaign advertising on radio, television and in
newspapers until the official campaign period starts on August 16, JEMB spokesman Baheen
Sultan Ahmad announced today. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/18/2005 |
JEMB CHAIRMAN Bissmillah Bissmil:
Dear Journalist Brothers and Sisters: You are all welcome here today. I am happy today to
announce a new phase of Afghan Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/18/2005 |
Electoral preparations for this years Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council Elections are about to enter
their second key phase- the update of the register of eligible voters. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/15/2005 |
As preparations for September
2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council are about to
enter the registration phase, JEMB would like to encourage
domestic and international organizations, groups and
governments to observe. Read more in... English
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| 06/13/2005 |
Preparations for the September 2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections are about to enter
their second key phase with the four-week Voter Registry Update period. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/12/2005 |
Boxes containing written challenges
against prospective candidates for the 2005 Wolesi
Jirga and Provincial Council elections are being
transported from provincial centres across Afghansitan
to the Electoral . Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto |
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| 06/07/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management Body condemns the killing of election worker Izat Musa Kalim in Uruzgan province on Friday, June 3. Read more in... Read more... |
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| 06/05/2005 |
The Preliminary List of Candidates
for the 2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections
went on display Saturday June 4, marking the first day
of. Read more in... English
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| 06/01/2005 |
The Joint Electoral Management
Body will conduct a month-long Voter Registry Update
between June 25 and July 21 ahead of elections for the
Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of the National Assembly)
and Provincial. Read more in... English
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May |
| 05/29/2005 |
Candidate Nominations for the 2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections have concluded with more than 6,000 Afghan men and women coming forward to run for office. Read more in... English
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| 05/25/2005 |
Almost 6,000 Afghan citizens in 33 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces have stepped forward as Candidates for the Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections on September 18, 2005. Read more in... English
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| 05/18/2005 |
Due to the ongoing security problems
experienced around Afghanistan the past week and the
consequent closure of some provincial offices; the Joint
Electoral Management Body has extended the Candidate
Nomination. Read more in... English
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| 05/17/2005 |
The Chairman of the Joint Electoral
Management Body Bissmillah Bismil called on Afghans
interested in contesting the upcoming Provincial Council
elections to step forward and nominate themselves as
candidates. Read more in... English
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| 05/08/2005 |
Afghan women have been assured of a significant voice
in the future of Afghanistan through the distribution of seats in
the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of the National Assembly) and Provincial
Councils. Read more in... Read
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| 05/02/2005 |
A total of 150 Afghans across the country have submitted their candidacies for Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections over the first three days of the Candidate Nomination process. Read
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| 05/01/2005 |
Afghans across the country have begun offering themselves as candidates in their country's first post-conflict legislative and Provincial Council elections. Read more in... English
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April |
| 04/30/2005 |
Based on population figures provided
by the Government of Afghanistan's Central Statistics
Office, the Joint Electoral Management Body has distributed
seats in the Wolesi Jirga , the Lower House of
the National. Read more in... English
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| 04/25/2005 |
In the coming days. the people
of Afghanistan will take their first step towards parliamentary
democracy. The three-week Candidate Nomination period
for Wolesi. Read more in... English
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