Afghanistan Election 2010 in Pictures

[Fahd]

what about this pic ??????????
i think we should look after this pic

[شمله ور خراساني]

Are you telling me these are the pictures of women voting in New York?

No. But just like the election last year, where only 5% of the people voting, I dont expect mass turn-out. Most who are not voting refrained from voting last year. Not because what the infidel media is saying. People didn't want to vote because they do not trust the government. And of course some where scared because taliban would blow up voting stations.

You see, sangar, on serious note, Afghans in lar aw bar are suffering and you have no cure for their suffering except some utopian ideas based on wishful thinking.

This is again typical rant by you lot. Which wishful thinking? Which utopia? I am not the one who is advocating secularism in Afghanistan. I am not the one who wants to see people behaving and acting like europeans in Afghanistan.

So how am I being a Utopian wishful thinker?

I don’t know what crime are these innocent women or men committing if they are going to use their right of franchise to elect the person of their choice.

Their crime is kufr. Voting for a secular government which is installed by infidels is legitimizing the corrupt regime. People who vote for secular governments vote for people who are going to make what is halal haram and what is haram halal. So this is a major problem. And thats why people should not vote.

Would Afghanistan be an independent country where people choose their own shura which is not appointed by America and would Afghanistan have a rule of law that is in accordance to our religion and customs, then I would be glad to help the process.

But why should I endorse this corrupt regime and support voting for this secular regime that promotes corruption?

If you think you can represent them better then be a man and stand against the war lords, drug lords or whatever.

I am a man. and I do what is within my capability. When I am done with my university degree I will stand up against warlords and drug dealers. But I am not going to waste my chance and loose an opportunity most of my countrymen would be willing to die for.

Your guys killed innocent people

You are now being a typical ranting emotional woman. My guys killed innocent people? I dont have a crew or anything.

who just wanted to have a better life

We all want a better life. Even people who are left with no other choice but to blow themselves up. We all want to live freely and enjoy ourselves.

But as long as there are colonists and secularist animals enforcing their will upon people, killing us, torturing us and dishonoring our women, no self respecting human being will sit and tolerate it.

and went out to vote

Voting can be done in different ways. You can vote with your finger, you can vote with your feet ( by moving away) or you can vote with bombs. It depends on what your situation is like and what you feel is necessary.

and these cowards

You can call people cowards, but who are you? You are a person who uses this forum as a platform to promote an ideology and culture which is alien to our people and you promote a corrupt colonist regime of rapists, looters and bandits.

Coward is not even worht being used to refer to people like you.

whom you adore

I adore all muslims.

killed them because their Pakistani masters taught so.

This is regular old secularist propaganda. You are the one cheering and clapping like a silly chearleader for a fake election held by Americans. As if the Americans are the husbands of the mothers of people participating in the election.

And people who oppose the colonists are accused of being pakistani servants.

Mind you, you are the one with a Pakistani passport.

This idea has been discussed that Afghanistan does not have resources to establish an army or maintain security forces without the help of world community and when asked said you will establish these institutions “by the grace of God”.

It is not my problem that you disbelieve in tawheed ar ruboobiyyah. Tawheed ar ruboobiyyah was sufficient for Muslims for the past 1400 years. It was sufficient for Maryam mother of Isa alaysalaam, it was sufficient for Noah alaysalaam.

Somehow it is not sufficient for secularists. It is your problem. So dont except Muslims to follow you.

What should one argue with you?

Dont argue with anyone. Just pray more often, and ask allah to increase your imaan.

You guys still do not realize that Afghanistan is on the way to rehabilitation from 30 years of war and going through an interim period

Again, you are a Pakistani. You dont have any idea what goes on in Afghanistan. If you go beyond Qalacha south of Kabul, you will see what "rehabilitation" is there.

I do not say there is no corruption or the representatives are the perfect people but this is what Afghans are

You dont know Afghans. The warlords, pimps, looters and bandits who run the country now are a very small minority. Afghanistan is filled with common people who are decent and law abiding people.

You should really pay a visit to Afghanistan and see it for yourself. Afghans are not all corrupted. Secularists are.

, if you think you have better alternative leadership they should come forward instead of hiding in the caves.

Nobody is hiding in caves. It is the secularists and their crusader masters who hide in villages and cities behind walls using local civilians as human shields.

No foreign or imperial power would dare to infiltrate or impose their system on you if you stand for your people instead of hiding in the caves.

Mullah Omar was not hiding in a cave when they bombarded Afghanistan.

Imperialists would think thrice to challenge a govt which has popular support

Taliban have popular support. This is why they are succesfully fighting over 40 countries including Pakistan.

while even a bankrupt country like Pakistan will dictate you guys their terms if you have tribal and war lordist or fanatic religious culture instead of progressive and productive culture.

This is just stupidity. You are refuting yoursefl. You claim Pakistan is bankrupt, yet you also say that this bankrupt country is dictating a succesful rebellion against over 40 countries with most advanced technology. LOL.

So don’t give us excuses,

I am not giving you any excuses. You are the one here talking nonsense.

be a man

I am a man. You be a woman and have some hayah like women and stop acting like a tomboy.

,go and fight your enemies in the fields of technology, democracy, infrastructure building, planning, education ,economy and political strategies, diplomacy

Inshaa allah when I graduate.

etc instead of cursing

It is you the secularists who have no morality and resort to profanity when you have no arguments or anything useful to say. So far most people who have been banend from this forum or received warnings war secularists and nationalists.

them and if you don’t have the balls then let these poor and innocent people decide their fate using the accepted norms of the world.

I have balls. If you care to see them, come and I will show you.

[PFgulalai]

who said they are all pashtuns? can you see from below the burqa if they are pashtun or not?

Did you learn that trick at the lab testing on rats and monkeys?

Nah, rats and monkeys are quite intelligent animals than many of the donkeys

The people who are voting are Afghans.What else you need to know?

[khyaal]

Thanks Gulalai khore for sharing election day fotos on PF. It was really a historic day where afghan people rejected Paki and ISI sponsored Taliban insrugency.

[khyaal]

The turnout was quite higher which is very encouraging for afghans democratic setup.

[Fahd]

Nah, rats and monkeys are quite intelligent animals than many of the donkeys

The people who are voting are Afghans.What else you need to know?

i know they are afghan but relly do u think they know what i know and u know about theis voteing ?
it's cheat like the first 1 and it's under US nmae not afghan name
any 1 vote he know that's mean he s enemy for taliban and afghan
sooooooooooooooooo many afghan's don't vote this day's and alway's i read the news then talk with u ppl about convorsation
( i don't know if my cousin voting but they know taliban and what taliban will do )

[khyaal]

Afghan nation won against the ISI agent Taliban.

[Fahd]

Afghan nation won against the ISI agent Taliban.

give us a prooooooooooooooooooof
u ppl just talk and can't giveing a proooof
mulla mohemmed omer amir almominen said ........
his story and how become taliban and siad there s nothing about pakistan help and we don't need them
he s aginst pakistan more than u he hate them more than u
u all prainwish by media
can media give u the true story about what happen this day's in afg ?
do u know that isaf and some afghan dog police rapeing ur family's in afg ?
rape women and taliban fight them !!
u still writing from ur computer
please if u want to talk with me in any time we can meet and drink tea and loughing in home or any place u want in makkah when u come for omra or alhaj
deal ?

[Talal]

'Brave' Afghan voters hailed amid Taliban threats

Turnout has initially been put at about 40%
Nato and the UN have praised voters who turned out for parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, despite violence that killed at least 14 people.

Nato forces chief Gen David Petraeus said the voice of Afghanistan's future belonged to the people, not extremists.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Afghan voters had shown "courage and determination".

Turnout has been put at 40%. However, there were many reports of fraud that may question the results.

More than 2,500 candidates are vying for 249 seats in the lower house of parliament, or Wolesi Jirga.

Governor targeted
Most polling stations had opened on schedule on Saturday.

However, the Taliban staged a series of rocket and other attacks around the country to deter voters.

There were widespread reports of violence across the country, and many deaths, but the Taliban and other insurgents failed to derail the vote.

Irregularities were expected in this election. President Karzai's government and his international partners need it to be a success - proof that life here is improving.

But the full extent of fraud will not be known until later. The remoteness of some polling stations mean donkeys have been used to ferry ballot boxes to and from the sites. And votes will be counted by hand, so the results are not expected till the end of October at the earliest, and even then will be subject to appeal by candidates.

Fraud doubt in Afghan election
The interior ministry said three security officials and 11 civilians had been killed.

The Kandahar provincial governor was also targeted in a bomb attack but survived.

Faizal Ahmad Manawi, head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), said initial figures pointed to a turnout figure of 40%. Turnout for the last parliamentary election, in 2005, was about 50%.

"As a whole I would rate this election successful," he said.

Gen Petraeus said the "people of Afghanistan sent a powerful message".

"The voice of Afghanistan's future does not belong to the violent extremists and terror networks. It belongs to the people," he said.

Gen Petraeus also praised the Afghan forces for "safeguarding a weapon with greater potential than any other - the people's right to vote".

Nato senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, Mark Sedwill, said the poll had shown "the future of Afghanistan remains one where violence cannot overthrow the democratic will of the people".

However the UN envoy to the country, Staffan de Mistura, told the BBC that it was premature to say the vote had been a success.

He said there had clearly been security problems, particularly in the south, but that in many other parts of the country the vote had been "enthusiastic".

'Stick to jihad'
After casting his vote in central Kabul, President Karzai said that by taking part in the election, Afghans would "take the country many steps forward into a better future".


Number of eligible voters: about 10.5 million
Number of seats: 249
Total number of candidates: 2,514, including 406 women
Total number of polling centres: 6,835
Polling centres closed because of security concerns: 1,019
Estimated cost: $150m (£95.5m), paid by international partners
In pictures: Afghan election

An Isaf spokesman said the level of violence had been similar to last year's presidential election, with 445 violent incidents on Saturday compared with 479 on 20 August last year.

But fraud remains a key concern to the credibility of the election.

The Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan, a monitoring group, said it had found "extensive irregularities" and urged the Independent Election Commission "to ensure the integrity of the rest of the electoral process".

The foundation's Nader Nadery told the BBC it was to be welcomed that more people had voted than expected and that casualties from attacks were lower than anticipated.

But he said there were many problems with the indelible ink used to stop multiple voting, with proxy votes, interference by local power brokers and with a large amount of intimidation.

The BBC's Lyse Doucet in Kabul said among the incidents of fraud were the arrest of 26 people with fake identity cards in Helmand province and officials stuffing ballot boxes at one closed polling station in eastern Wardak province.

The Taliban had earlier warned voters to boycott the poll and "stick to jihad".

Preliminary results are to be announced on 22 September, with the final results due on 31 October.

The outcome is not expected to change the make-up of the government although President Karzai's credibility may be damaged if his preferred candidates are defeated, or if vote-rigging is suspected.

[Mayana]

give us a prooooooooooooooooooof
u ppl just talk and can't giveing a proooof
mulla mohemmed omer amir almominen said ........
his story and how become taliban and siad there s nothing about pakistan help and we don't need them
he s aginst pakistan more than u he hate them more than u
u all prainwish by media
can media give u the true story about what happen this day's in afg ?
do u know that isaf and some afghan dog police rapeing ur family's in afg ?
rape women and taliban fight them !!
u still writing from ur computer
please if u want to talk with me in any time we can meet and drink tea and loughing in home or any place u want in makkah when u come for omra or alhaj
deal ?

Yeah, because Mullah Omar is really gonna say that he works with/for Pakistan, right.

Nah bro. On a more realistic note, I think we all are sitting behind our computers in our cozy homes and typing this, so no need to point fingers there.

[muhsina]

No. But just like the election last year, where only 5% of the people voting, I dont expect mass turn-out. Most who are not voting refrained from voting last year. Not because what the infidel media is saying. People didn't want to vote because they do not trust the government. And of course some where scared because taliban would blow up voting stations.

This time the turnout was 40 percent plus which shows that Afghans want to move forward and want to reject any retrogressive elements.

This is again typical rant by you lot. Which wishful thinking? Which utopia? I am not the one who is advocating secularism in Afghanistan. I am not the one who wants to see people behaving and acting like Europeans in Afghanistan. So how am I being a Utopian wishful thinker?

Imposing the so called Arab imperialism called caliphate run by rag tag is wishful thinking, a utopia ,a dream...and nothing else

Their crime is kufr. Voting for a secular government which is installed by infidels is legitimizing the corrupt regime. People who vote for secular governments vote for people who are going to make what is halal haram and what is haram halal. So this is a major problem. And thats why people should not vote.

Is everything against yourself conceived creeds kufar? Let them vote for people with your type of sick mentality and 98 percent Afghans would themselves become kafir.LOL

Would Afghanistan be an independent country where people choose their own shura which is not appointed by America and would Afghanistan have a rule of law that is in accordance to our religion and customs, then I would be glad to help the process.

The moment the law and order enforcing agencies of the world community leave , Afghanistan will become vulnerable target to be enslaved by Pakistan. Law and order according to your concept is a dream. Theocracies can never run states.

But why should I endorse this corrupt regime and support voting for this secular regime that promotes corruption?

You see it is continuous democratic process which will eliminate corruption and bring better candidates. At this stage democratic process with all its handicaps has to be supported for a better future. Even in your version of sharia they say that "In non ideal circumstances "ahwan bainal baliyataain" principle should be followed". Don’t expect that a tribal society will have a perfect democratic setup with angels as the candidates.

You are now being a typical ranting emotional woman. My guys killed innocent people? I dont have a crew or anything.

By your guys I meant those whom you support that is ISI backed Taliban.

But as long as there are colonists and secularist animals enforcing their will upon people, killing us, torturing us and dishonoring our women, no self respecting human being will sit and tolerate it.

We condemn and discard any form of colonialism or imperialism. The NATO forces with all their handicaps were necessary for a war ravaged Afghanistan. There was and is no other way. Secular people just want the segregation of religion and state and equal respect for all relgions and sects. It is the religeous clergy and theocracies who impose their will on people by force ,judgements and verdicts not by argument [due to absence of it] . Secular people are just insterested that a certain version ,sect or school of thought should NOT be imposed on the whole state and it should be kept to the sphere of the private life of a person.

Voting can be done in different ways. You can vote with your finger, you can vote with your feet ( by moving away) or you can vote with bombs. It depends on what your situation is like and what you feel is necessary.

Right. However Afghanistan is not a position to use voting by feet or bombs as it will be an exercise in futility. This is what we should learn from Afghan history in the last 3 decades.

You are a person who uses this forum as a platform to promote an ideology and culture which is alien to our people and you promote a corrupt colonist regime of rapists, looters and bandits.

This is a thought provoking dicussion. We need to have another thread for it. I understand your concern and am interested to dig what will be the shape and state structure of Afghanistan once it moves from agararian cum tribal to industrial cum information age. What will be the impact of these technological developments on our culture? Will our people also indugle in some immoral practices like the west, or whether that is associated with the progress or just an offshoot of some thing else? There are so many questions to be addressed. Hope to have a discussion on it.

I agree I am interested to promote new ideas, new goals, new vision, new vistas of progress. We had enough of this death and destruction and we need to get the glory back.

I adore all muslims.

You may adore Muslims however adoring Muslims is a non productive idea. Muslims have reduced to a mob of loose heterogeneous ideological group which has zero contribution to the progress and prosperity of to human race. Practically it is adoring Arab culture at the most ,which implies to enjoy the benefits, if any, in that culture along with it manifold shortcomings.

Mind you, you are the one with a Pakistani passport.

I am not very proud of it and consider myself to be in an occupied Afghan territory.

It is not my problem that you disbelieve in tawheed ar ruboobiyyah. Tawheed ar ruboobiyyah was sufficient for Muslims for the past 1400 years. It was sufficient for Maryam mother of Isa alaysalaam, it was sufficient for Noah alaysalaam.

You cannot run institutions of a state on such subjective esoteric sensations.

Taliban have popular support. This is why they are succesfully fighting over 40 countries including Pakistan.

Except yourself , the whole world knows that Taliban are supported by Pakistan not by Afghans. They might consist of local Afghans, sincere too but being backed and used for the strategic interests of Pakistan only. They have nothing better to offer to Afghanistan. Mullas can never run a state.

This is just stupidity. You are refuting yourself. You claim Pakistan is bankrupt, yet you also say that this bankrupt country is dictating a successful rebellion against over 40 countries with most advanced technology.

Your Amir ul Momineen and other elders are pupils of Col Imam - a simple colonel of Pakistan army having more sense and skill than your whole army of God. wa qis ala zalik.

[Dust]

We have to give credit where credit is deserved: Western forces.
Without them, this platform would have never materialized. I wish and hope that they stay in Afghanistan for as long as it is needed.

[Fahd]

Yeah, because Mullah Omar is really gonna say that he works with/for Pakistan, right.

Nah bro. On a more realistic note, I think we all are sitting behind our computers in our cozy homes and typing this, so no need to point fingers there.

mayana come on
u must be proud of mullah more than me and any 1 because he is from kandahar

did u read his story ?
let me ask u , if i was amirca and u mullah , i saw u very powrful and love afg , so i want to make fetna (u know what fetna mean ) u will say to media that taliban get help from pakistan and all that's will make afg hate taliban
come on think by mind that's waaar and u can't imagine what gona happen .
first it's media war
what u think if media say the trueth do u think that afg hate taliban ??
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now if u watch all this video please change ur mind .

[Fahd]

We have to give credit where credit is deserved: Western forces.
Without them, this platform would have never materialized. I wish and hope that they stay in Afghanistan for as long as it is needed.

did u ask afg for if they would like they stay
i relly can't say anything u live in europa or US and want afg live in hell
?
why u don't have heart to ask afg what they want ?
didn't u see what happen this few day's ?

media media media media
im saying media change ur all europa and US ppl mind
even here they do the same but im not f idiot to think that
i have mind think in other way
why US want to fight us if there s nothing we do in 9/11 (u can see the video on my last post)
they want our
Natural resources of Afghanistan
do u know that
they don't want
islamic emarh in afghanistan they know the hadith about our proph mohammed they know more than u and than any 1

[Mayana]

Nah Fahd Khana.
Matter of fact, I cannot stand him and the mere fact that he is from Kandahar makes me cringe. He is a disgrace to all of Kandahar.
I do not judge politicians (and tyrants for that matter) based upon their hometown. I will never support anyone based upon such irrelevant factors such as their hometown. That's nonsense.