A senior member of the Afghan parliament’s leadership said Wednesday that government is trying to engineer the upcoming parliamentary elections by making sure its cronies secure seats in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament).  

This comes a day after the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said it had started assessing nomination papers of parliamentary election candidates.

In this episode of the program, host Sadaf Amiri discusses the topic with Asadullah Sadati, MP, Najib Paykan, political analyst, Sayed Hafizullah Hashemi, member of IEC.