The head of the IT department at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday said the election management body has finalized the database for the voter registration process.

Sayed Ibrahim Sadat, head of IEC’s IT department said that until now, details of 50,000 voters have so far been registered.

According to the IEC, the number of people registered to vote is now over 5.1 million.

Of those who have registered, 3.3 million are male, 1.6 million are female, 97,000 are Kuchis and over 500 belong to the Sikh minority group.

In this episode of the program, host Massoud Malik discusses the topic with Ajmal Kakar, a local journalist from Kunduz, Shah Mahmoud Mal, a member of TEFA and Danish Karokhil, a journalist from Pajhwok news agency.