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18 September 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended the courage and determination of the men and women of Afghanistan for voting in today's parliamentary elections. In a statement, Mr. Ban noted the high number of…

19 September 2010 - Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC), the body responsible for running Saturday’s countrywide parliamentary elections, said today that further counting now showed the number of votes…

18 September 2010 - The Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC), which was responsible for conducting today’s parliamentary polls, said late on Saturday that counting of the votes had so far shown that 40 percent of…

18 September 2010 - Polling centres across Afghanistan for the parliamentary elections closed by 4:30 pm local time on Saturday, according to the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC), which was responsible for…

18 September 2010 - See the latest election day pictures taken by UNAMA photographers from across the country. ELECTION PHOTOS

17 September 2010 - The United Nations has stepped up its technical and logistical support to Afghan electoral authorities as voters prepare to cast their ballots in Saturday’s parliamentary polls, the world body said today…

18 September 2010 - Afghans began going to the polls this morning at 7 am local time for the start of a day of voting in countrywide parliamentary elections. Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) is responsible…

16 September 2010 - Staffan de Mistura, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, today visited the southern city of Kandahar with Abdullah Ahmadzai, Chief Electoral Officer of…

15 September 2010 - Today the Afghanistan Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced the end of the campaign period for the 18 September 2010 Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) election in Afghanistan. “The campaign period for…

15 September - "This election is about giving honest people the magic experience of voting to have a say in the governance of their country," Judge Johann Kriegler of Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission told…

9 September 2010 - General Assembly President Ali Treki has added his voice to United Nations concern about the threat by a Christian clergyman in the United States to burn copies of the Koran. Dr. Treki “condemns such calls…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s upcoming parliamentary polls will be “far from” perfect, but they should be much less marred by fraud than last year’s presidential elections, the top United Nations envoy to the country said today. Due…