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| Amarkhail Rejects Plots of Escaping Afghanistan |
| 2014-07-06 |
| [Tolo News] A day after his return from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail, former Chief Secretariat for the Independent Elections Commission (IEC), rejected the allegations of his "plot" to escape Afghanistan, at a presser in Kabul on Saturday. "I went to the UAE with my Afghan passport just for two or three days and that too for treatments," Amarkhail said at the conference. Amarkhail departed Kabul for the UAE on Monday evening. His departure received harsh criticism from those who believe he should be present to answer for the accusations of fraud that have been filed against him, and if found guilty, suffer the consequences. Over a week ago, Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... 's presidential candidate team released audio recordings supposedly exposing Amarkhail of coordinating plans for ballot stuffing during the runoff with members of the Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai team as well as local officials in a number of provinces. He quickly resigned from his post at the IEC while denying the veracity of the accusations against him. At Saturday's presser, Amarkhail reiterated that the audiotapes released by Abdullah's team was not authentic, "it's a fake," he said. "I resigned so that Abdullah returns to the election process," he explained. Amarkhail also said that the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) should investigate the cases filed against him. He emphasized at the presser that there were many plots against him during the election process. On Thursday IEC Chairman, Ahmad Yusef Nuristani, said that Amarkhail is guilty adding that his alleged involvement in fraud has threatened the entire election process. Initially, Nuristani did not believe the evidence provided was that of Amarkhail's, but after listening to the recorded phone conversations his views on Amarkhail changed. |
| Posted by:Fred |