Taliban-run authorities dissolves Afghan election commissions

The Taliban dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions in addition to the state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs, an official stated Sunday.
Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run authorities, stated the nation’s Independent Election Commission and Electoral Complaint Commission have been dissolved.
He known as them “unnecessary institutes for the current situation in Afghanistan.” He stated if there’s a want for the commissions sooner or later, the Taliban authorities can revive them.
The worldwide group is ready earlier than extending formal recognition to Afghanistan’s new rulers. They are cautious the Taliban may impose a equally harsh regime as once they have been in energy 20 years in the past — regardless of their assurances on the contrary.

Both elections commissions have been mandated to manage and supervise all varieties of elections within the nation, together with presidential, parliamentary and provincial council elections.
Karimi stated the Taliban additionally dissolved the Ministry for Peace and the Ministry of Parliamentarian Affairs. He stated they have been pointless ministries within the authorities’s present construction.
The Taliban had beforehand shut down the previous Women’s Affairs Ministry.