Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered in a decree on Saturday that the country's presidential poll, which had been slated for August, be brought forward to April.
The Afghan Election Commission will therefore conduct presidential, parliamentary, provincial council, district council and municipality elections in accordance with the constitution, the decree said.
According to the Afghan constitution, the presidential election should be held at least 30 days before the end of the presidential term on May 22.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered in a decree on Saturday that country's presidential poll, which was slated for August, to put forward to April.
Afghan Election commission is to hold presidential, parliamentary, provincial council district council and municipality elections in accordance with the constitution, Karzai said in a decree.
Constitutionally, the presidential election should be held at least 30 days before the end of the presidential term on May 22.
Washington - Afghanistan is making inroads in stemming an opium drug trade that has fuelled a growing insurgency in the war- torn country, according to an annual report on the global drug trade by the US State Department Friday.
But the US singled out Myanmar, as well as Latin American powers Venezuela and Bolivia for having "failed demonstrably" to combat drug trafficking in their own countries.
Washington - Afghanistan is making inroads in stemming an opium drug trade that has fuelled a growing insurgency in the war- torn country, according to an annual report on the global drug trade by the US State Department Friday.
But the US singled out Myanmar, as well as Latin American powers Venezuela and Bolivia for having failed demonstrably" to combat drug trafficking in their own countries.
Kabul - Four Afghan civilians working with a construction company were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, while Afghan and coalition forces killed one insurgent and arrested 18 others, officials said Thursday.
The workers were killed in Yousifkhel district of the south-eastern province of Paktika on Thursday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"All the occupants of the vehicle, who were all civilians and working with a road construction company, were martyred in the explosion," it said.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered in a decree on Saturday that the country's presidential poll, which had been slated for August, be brought forward to April.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered in a decree on Saturday that country's presidential poll, which was slated for August, to put forward to April.
Washington - Afghanistan is making inroads in stemming an opium drug trade that has fuelled a growing insurgency in the war- torn country, according to an annual report on the global drug trade by the US State Department Friday.
Washington - Afghanistan is making inroads in stemming an opium drug trade that has fuelled a growing insurgency in the war- torn country, according to an annual report on the global drug trade by the US State Department Friday.
Kabul - Four Afghan civilians working with a construction company were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, while Afghan and coalition forces killed one insurgent and arrested 18 others, officials said Thursday.
