Subsequent to insecure, but the successful completion of runoff for the presidential election, it seemed the election was fairly conducted that would bring an agreed result for both the contenders. However, the dream turned nightmare when the presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah cried foul underlining mass rigging and countless irregularities staged to alter the peoples’ mandate. He claimed the President Karzai played foul by extending bright day support to his rival in the runoff election whilst negating the credibility of the electoral body exercising vote count and tallying process anymore. Election certainly, encompasses manifold significance for both contenders, hence exercising efforts to manipulate the election results, can’t be ruled out. It is inculcated into the jurisdiction of IEC and IECC, undertake an impartial inquiry into accusations and duly address the labeled charges, before the aggrieved contender called for public demonstration against the unaddressed charges that led to political deadlock, but all in vain. Consequently, he demanded an immediate stop to the vote-tallying process withdrawing his observers from the vote count process.

According to claims made by Dr. Abdullah: in at least 8 provinces more votes was reported then the eligible voters. In some areas, evident ballot stuffing executed where no election took place, he claimed. One of the person highly doubted is IEC's Secretariat Chief Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail who came under suspicion on Election Day when a convoy of his cars was stopped by Kabul police leaving the election commission unannounced loaded with blank ballots. Following his suspicious acts he should have been suspended from his position and investigated for fraud, which regretfully didn’t materialize. Like Amarkhel, there are number of independent election commission employees who were found involved in electoral irregularities is claimed by Dr. Abdullah. All such ill-deeds undertaken by public officials eroded our confidence in the electoral bodies, Dr. Abdullah said formerly in a press conference. Finally the aired allegation against aided electoral fraud of IEC’s secretariat chief Amarkhail got public after recent media talks of Abdullah’s team. The 13 minutes poor-quality audio, purported to be conversations between Amarkhail, other IEC officials and a member of Ghani’s team who is being reassured that staff would be “used” to favor him (Ghani). In one recording, Amarkhail allegedly tells an IEC member from the northwestern province of Faryab to fire his entire staff and change them for Pashtuns and Uzbeks.

Following, the joint cold response of government and the electoral commission, he cut off ties with the election commissions and pulled his observer. On the other hand, supporters of presidential hopeful Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday staged two separate protest demonstrations in Kabul, demanding the prosecution of those involved in the June 14 runoff fraud. Separately, a large number of women staged a demonstration in front of Zarnigar Park in support of the Reform and Unanimity team chanting slogans against fraud and rigging in the run-off whilst demanding the suspension of the Independent Election Commission’s (IEC) Secretary. Following, the continued protest and public pressure, Amarkhel had to give in. However, Dr. Abdullah now asks, every officials undertaking ill-conduct must be prosecuted.

The accusations charged by presidential contender, must be duly heard and impartially treated by the head of the electoral commission and the concerns must be done away with. There are large numbers of IEC and public officials involved in rigging the election, the claims made by Dr. Abdullah should duly be addressed.

It was highly expected a fair election would be conducted under the supervision of assigned commission and incumbent government that has to exercise a high degree of impartiality followed by an agreeable and peaceful transition. Nevertheless, the charge labeled contains a certain degree of reality if not complete and should have been dealt prior to the emergence of chaotic condition. Contrarily, the commission and the government supporting their stance of being impartial in the electoral process whilst justifying their standing doesn’t worth a penny and have discredited their position. Instead, President Karzai should have by now, used his discretionary power, suspending the concerned person on charges of fraud after a fair hearing, the issue then would definitely have shifted towards congenial solution.

Previously, the report of another independent election observer surfaced that conformed Abdullah’s claims. Hence, Dr. Abdullah’s camp wasn’t found to be solitary registering concerns. Nevertheless, the former report of Transparent Election Foundations of Afghanistan (TEFA) unearthed its findings about the elections with media at a press conference, that highlighted several cases of irregularities, had taken place. The figure of voters disclosed by TEFA is not more 6m which contradicts the 7m claims of IEC. The report also indicated that the runoff witnessed more challenges, riggings and violations compared to the first round. There are multiple facts and figures of irregularities highlighted by the aforementioned report that included, stuffed ballot boxes in 218 centers in 16 provinces, double voting in 337 centers in 13 provinces, voting of ineligible people in 581 centers in 27 provinces, etc. IEC claims, a majority of election observer institutions have said that the runoff was more transparent than the first round. TEFA disagrees with the assertions. "Our findings show that the runoff had more problems compared to the first round," Ayoubzada of TEFA stated.

Abdullah urged the international community, as Afghanistan’s partner in the electoral exercise, should see to it that global aid was spent properly and the polls conducted in a transparent manner. He anticipated the international credible organization look into his claims and help the electoral commission undertake fair result compilation.

As per demand made by Dr. Abdullah a neutral commission comprising of UN observers should be empowered to undertake the election irregularities and result compilation process. The whole expectation refers to UN and credible international organizations, come forth and play their part in curtailing the political crisis by compiling a fairer result provided Afghans rule out, fraud deciding their fate. At this very time when the crisis is about to multiply, given the concerns are left unaddressed.