The bitter dispute over Afghanistan’s presidential election is expected to be settled on Sunday (21 September) with the announcement of the final

Despite a UN-led audit of votes from June’s disputed presidential election, the threat of further turmoil in Afghanistan hangs over this week’s

Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan has pulled out of talks with the government, vowing to stay with thousands of protesters outside parliament

Afghanistan is marking 95 years of full independence. But amid the pomp and ceremony in Kabul where President Hamid Karzai laid a wreath at the

Protesters are staging a sit-in and sleep-in within Pakistan, saying they won’t budge from Islamabad until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Afghanistan’s feuding presidential candidates – Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah – have in agreed in writing to work together to form a unity

After meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates have agreed to work together on forming a

Around ten thousand protesters flooded the streets of Kabul to support candidate Abdullah Abdullah’s allegations of fraud in the presidential

Eleven Afghan civilians have had a finger cut off by the Taliban as a punishment for voting in this weekend’s presidential run-off. More than 40

The count is underway in Afghanistan in the second round of the presidential election, the result of which should be known in 18 days. Officials

Candidates and voters alike have defied the Taliban to return to the polls for the second round run-off in Afghanistan’s presidential

Voting is underway in Afghanistan in a crunch run-off election to decide who will succeed president Hamid Karzai. In power since a US-led invasion

Afghans are preparing to head to the polls on Saturday to elect their new president. Former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah,  is one of two top

The Afghan presidential election has come down to a two-horse race after no single candidate secured an absolute majority in the first round

Nearly 70 percent of Afghanistan’s population is under the age of 25. They expect their new president to improve sports facilities. During the

After Afghanistan’s presidential election, trucks delivered ballot boxes to the Independent Election Commission in Kabul as vote counting got

The polling stations are now closed in Afghanistan and the voter turnout to elect the country’s new president was reportedly around 58%. The high

Seven million people turned out to vote in Afghanistan’s landmark presidential election. That’s about 58 percent of the electorate. Saturday’s vote

Afghanistan’s historic presidential election drew to a close on Saturday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared. The