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<div><p><span><a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a></span>'s election authorities have cancelled votes cast at dozens of polling centres in the recent parliamentary poll after finding evidence of fraud, an electoral official said Thursday.</p><p>Fazil <a title="Ahmad Manawi" href="/topic/Ahmad+Manawi" >Ahmad Manawi</a>, head of the <span>Independent Election Commission</span> (IEC) said any IEC agents found responsible for fraud would be prosecuted.</p><p>"The commiss...

2011-01-04T06:02:28ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2011-01-04:/photo/afghanistan-2405860p/

Afghan police officers look for clues near the site of an explosion in <a title="Kabul Province" href="/topic/Kabul+Province" >Kabul, Afghanistan</a>, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The bomb exploded in central <a title="Kabul" href="/topic/Kabul" >Kabul</a> early Tuesday, killing one police officer and wounding three other people, a government official said, on the one-year anniversary of the country's constitution.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2011&#160; <a href="ht...

2011-01-02T02:31:18ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2011-01-02:/photo/aptopix-afghanistan-2404993p/

An <a title="Afghan National Army" href="/topic/Afghan+National+Army" >Afghan National Army</a> soldier chops wood at Badel Combat Out Post in <a title="Kunar Province" href="/topic/Kunar+Province" >Kunar province</a> in eastern <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> near the border of <a title="Pakistan" href="/topic/Pakistan" >Pakistan</a> on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2011&#160; <a href="http://www.ap....

2010-12-31T10:00:31ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2010-12-31:/photo/wikileaks-afghanistan-2404398p/

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >President Barack Obama</a> is greeted by <a title="NATO" href="/topic/NATO" >NATO</a> Commander in <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> <a title="David Petraeus" href="/topic/David+Petraeus" >Gen. David Petraeus</a>, left, and US Ambassador to Afghanistan <a title="Karl Eikenberry" href="/topic/Karl+Eikenberry" >Karl W. Eikenberry</a>, center, after stepping off <a title="Air ...

2010-12-26T10:30:30ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2010-12-26:/photo/afghanistan-101st-hard-year-2402403p/

FILE - In this Friday Aug. 27, 2010 picture, <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >U.S.</a> soldiers of the 2-502 Infantry, <a title="101st Airborne Division" href="/topic/101st+Airborne+Division" >101st Airborne Division</a>, participate in a memorial service for an <a title="Afghan National Army" href="/topic/Afghan+National+Army" >Afghan Army</a> officer from a partner unit who was killed in an insurgent ambush a day earlier, at Forward Operating Base <a title="Howz-e-Madad" h...

2010-12-18T06:30:25ZAP Newstag:politicalscandalnews.com,2010-12-18:/photo/germany-afghanistan-2399187p/

Picture provided by the press department of <a title="Government of Germany" href="/topic/Government+of+Germany" >German Government</a> shows <a title="Angela Merkel" href="/topic/Angela+Merkel" >German Chancellor Angela Merkel</a>, right as she talks to <a title="Hamid Karzai" href="/topic/Hamid+Karzai" >Afghan President Hamid Karzai</a>, left, as German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, second right, and <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> general <a tit...