Bamian All Elections News

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): About 84,000 people or half of the total registered voters in central Bamyan province exercised their right to enfranchise in the September 28 presidential election, an official said on Monday.
Ghulam Haidar Panahi, foreign relations director at the Independent Election Commission (IEC), told Pajhwok Afghan News that only one polling station out of 220 stations remained closed during the polling and people cast their votes in the province.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Awareness program regarding biometric voting for illiterate womenhas been launched in central Bamyan province for the September 28 presidential election, an official said on Thursday.
Aqila Yousufi, Independent Election Commission (IEC) gender section head for Bamyan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the aim of the biometric awareness program was to encourage women to widely partake in the presidential election.

BAMYAN (Pajhwok): The remoteness of voter registration centers, wide-spread rigging in the Wolesi Jirga elections and lack of trust over the Independent Election Commission (IEC) are to blame for lack of people’s interest in the upcoming presidential election in central Bamyan province.
Earlier, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced launching a 20-day voter registration process for the Sept 28 presidential election.

BAMAYN CITY (Pajhwok): Hundreds of residents of Kahmard district of central Bamayan province protested against missing of candidates’ names in the list and non-transparency of the ballot process in their district.
Around 400 people had staged a rally in the center of Kahmard district today and they complained from the election process in their area.
They said some people were deprived from Saturday’s voting and they were not let to vote on the second day.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): As many as 14 electoral offenses registered during campaigning for Saturday’s Wolesi Jirga elections in central Bamyan province, have been addressed, an official said on Wednesday.
Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) head for Bamyan, Mohammad Hadi Amiri, told Pajhwok Afghan News that no female candidate was among the offenders.
He said some of the offenders were banned for three to five days from running their electoral campaign as punishment and others fined.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Civil society activists and the governor of central Bamyan province on Wednesday urged the government and security forces to bring to justice the killers of seven civilians in Zabul province.
Holding a gathering in Bamyan City, the provincial capital, the activists demanded the government take stern action against the perpetrators.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): At least six-month salaries of over 2,750 contract-based teachers in central Bamyan province have not been paid, forcing some of them into manual labour for making ends meet.
More than 145,000 students including 70,000 girls study in 270 schools in Bamyan. They are being taught by 2,850 permanent and 2,750 contract-based teachers, officials say.
According to the Education Department, more than 17,000 students were enrolled in schools this year, including 50 percent girls.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): The United Nations Human Settlement Program is implementing its first Urban Peace project consists of capacity building and development projects in central Bamyan province, an official said Thursday.
The contract of the three years project was signed between Bamyan governor and the UN-Habitat today.
Bamyan Governor Mohammad Tahir Zuhair said choosing Bamyan as the first province for implementing the Urban Peace project was because of its improved security and stability.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): A civil society group and local officials have voiced their concern about the increase in street harassment of women and girls in central Bamyan province, urging the government to criminalise the malicious act.
A survey conducted by a women’s rights development organisation in Yakawlang district and Bamyan’s capital found that street harassment had increased over the past three years.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Hundreds of residents in central Bamyan province on Saturday took to the street against the killing of 24 Afghan Local Police (ALP) members by rebels and criticized the government for what they alleged demonstrating negligence.
At least 30 militants and 25 ALP have been killed and 18 other rebels wounded in Kabul-Bamyan Highway and clashes in central Maidan Wardak province on Friday.
The ALP forces also lost control of 12 security posts. However, security officials said Afghan forces regained control of all 12 posts in Jalrez district