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Amarkhail Would Not Escape if Innocent: Nuristani

Amarkhail Would  Not Escape if Innocent: Nuristani

KABUL - The Chairman of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has called Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail, former IEC Secretariat, guilty emphasizing that Amarkhail's alleged involvement in fraud has threatened the entire election process.

In an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, IEC Chairman Ahmad Yousef Nuristani implied that his views regarding Amarkhail had changed after listening to his recorded phone conversations.

"If Amarkhail was not involved in election fraud, he would not have escaped from the country," Nuristani said.

This is while Nuristani had earlier claimed, at a press conference on June 16, that the fraud accusations against Amarkhail were baseless.

"We do not have any justified evidence against Amarkhail, hence we will end the issue right here," Nuristani had stated on June 16. "If Dr. Abdullah has any evidence he should present it to the commission. The accusations are baseless."

Amarkhail resigned from his position soon after the release of his telephone conversations about engineering fraud in the election results. Soon after, on July 1, he left the country for the UAE. (Tolonews)