Afghanistan and the 2009 Presidential and PC Elections.

The result announced yet by IEC, indicates that Karzai is leading by about 44%, Abdullah the 2nd by about 33% and Bashar Dust by about 13%, the third leading candidate. there have been many reports of irregularities which are supposed to be addressed by ECC the electoral Complaint Commission.

Dr. Abdullah blames Mr. Karzai of fraud and irregularities in many provinces, particularly the south and the south east. there have been some complaints against Abdullah in the provinces like Panjshir, Kapisa, Kundoz etc. Bashar Dust blams and accuses both of them. Out of all these alleged irregularities and frauds, one thing is clear that Karzai has got more vote in the areas where Pashtoons live. Abdullah has got more votes from Tajic inhabited areas and Bashar Dust from Hazara populated areas. Ethnic factor is some thing which needs to be noticed by all of those who were involved in the process. In Hazarajat, Despite of much efforts and campaign by Karzai and Abdullah groups, people didn't vote them and they supported Bashar Dust. Bashar Dust has emerged as a phenomenon deserves to be counted up on in the future.

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Afghanistan and the 2009 Presidential and PC Elections.

Afghanistan is experiencing the 2nd round of the Presidential and Provincial Council Elections. 20th August 2009, was the day with a lot of hopes and fears throughout the country. Taliban had threatened that they would not allow people to go to the polling stations and cast their votes. Despite of all these threats, millions of people managed to get to the polling stations and they hoped that they would practice democracy in their social life.

Anti Government Elements managed to block roads and ways to the polling centers in many parts of the country. They attacked a district center in Baghlan and killed the district chief of police and wounding some others. They caused problems to people in some parts of Kunduz and around 12 polling centers remained closed to the people. In south districts of Ghazni province, most of the areas were inaccessible to voters due to threats by Taliban. Even in the districts of Waghaz, Khugyani, Qarabagh and Rashidan people couldn’t get properly to the polling centers.

Bamyan and Daikundi have been the provinces with reasonable turnout of voters. It seems that the overall turnout is between 70-80%. In Daikundi, Mr. Bashar Dust is the leading presidential candidate and in Bamyan the votes fluctuate between Bashar Dust and Karzai.

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