Elections Special Tribunal Throws Out Quarter of MPs

Elections Special Tribunal on Thursday announced the results of its investigation into parliamentary elections and overturned nearly 25 percent of last year's election results.

The tribunal, formed by President Karzai to investigate fraud allegations in last year's parliamentary elections, announced 62 protesting candidates as winners of the elections.

Chief of the Special Tribunal, Sediqullah Haqiq, called for prosecution of fraud organisers in last year's elections.

Sediqullah Haqiq said: "In light of our investigations and constitution one by one they should be prosecuted because of shortcomings now and then."

Mr Haqiq strongly criticised the counting processes of electoral commissions.

Parwan, Kapisa, Uruzgan, Nimroz, Panjsher and Bamyan are the provinces where slight changes have taken place after the recounting process.

In response to Special Tribunal's announcement of the results, the Afghan House of Representatives disqualified the Afghan Attorney General.

Parliamentarians believe that Afghan Attorney General is behind all the parliamentary vote mess.

Once again legislators called the work of the special tribunal unconstitutional and urged the international community and the United Nations to step in for a final decision.

But Deputy Attorney General Rahmatullah Nazari see the decision of parliamentarians to disqualify the Attorney General against constitution and internal regulations of the house.

"Articles 91 and 92 in the constitution clearly state that summon should take place based on well-founded reasons. There is no acceptable reason,"Mr Nazari said.

Parliamentarians warned of taking to streets and holding demonstrations nationwide if even one member of the house is thrown out.

Key opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah warned that Karzai's system will collapse if the government keeps trampling Afghan laws.

President Hamid Karzai is making efforts to undermine the credibility of the constitution so that he could run for presidential elections for a third time, Dr Abdullah said.

"There is no doubt that there were problems in parliamentary elections, but it was not to the extent to break laws for it," he said. "From the very beginning formation of the special tribunal was illegal and now its decision is also illegal."

Dr Abdullah said the investigation of special tribunal into last year's election is unconstitutional.

Names of the Winning Parliamentary Candidates Announced by Special Tribunal are as follows:

Herat Province:

1. Rahima Jami

2. Naser Attaie

3. Ahmad Wahid Taheri

4. Mohammad Marouf Fazeli

5. Nesar Ahmad Faizi Ghoryani

6. Zarin Zarin

Badakhshan Province:

7. Abdul Shukoor Waqef Hakimi

8. Munira Mohammadi

9. Abdul Raouf

Takhar Province:

10. Mohammad Hashim Haidarzada

Samangan Province

11. Ahmad Khan Samangani

12. Rayis Khairullah

13. Ustad Mahbuba

Kunduz Province:

14. Nooruddin Biag

15. Fazel Karim Aimaq

16. Rayis Hussain Khail

Balkh Province:

17. Mohammad Yosuf Ghazanfar

Laghman Province:

18. Abdul Hadi Wakefi

19. Wakil Marai

Jawzjan Province:

20. Noor Mohammad Noor

Paktika Province:

21. Dr Khadija

22. Mahmood Khan Sulaiman Khail

Paktia Province:

23. Delawar Tota Khail

Khost Province:

24. Hayatullah Wazir

25. Wali Khan Hilamand

Faryab Province:

26. Saltanat Kohi

27. Gul Mohammad Pahlawan

28. Najibullah

Farah Province:

29. Abdul Wali Hamidi

30. Massoud Bakhtawar

Sar-e-Pul Province:

31. Haji Payenda Mohammad

Ghor Province:

32. Mawlawi Din Mohammad

33. Fazel Ahmad Khan

Badghis Province:

34. Rayis Mohammad Omar

35. Habibullah Qadesi

36. Abdul Latif

37. Azizullah

Nooristan Province:

38. Noorullah Mehmar

Zabul Province:

39. Hamidullah Tokhi

40. Mohammad Ismail Zabuli

41. Torpikai

Nomads' Representative:

42. Abdul Qader Kochi

Maidan Wardak Province:

43. Wahidullah Kalimzai

Nangarhar Province:

44. Malek Nazir

45. Mujib Rahman Shinwari

Helmand Province:

46. Mualem Mir Wali

Kandahar Province:

47. Niyaz Mohammad Faqir Lalai

48. Abdul Rahim Achekzai

49. Hajji Mahmood Noor

50. Mohammad Ayub

Ghazni Province:

51. Mohammad Dawood Sultanzoy

52. Abdul Jabbar Shulgari

53. Abdul Haki Dalili

54. Niyaz Mohammad Amiri

Baghlan Province:

55. Ashiqullah Wafa

56. Mohammad Nasir Mudaber

Logar Province:

57. Assadullah Falah

Kabul Province:

58. Jamil Karzai

59. Ehsan Sahebzada

60. Baidar Zazai

61. Abdul Qader Zazai

62. Robina Jalali