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President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said that the state of press freedom and independent media would continue to progress in Afghanistan under the new political leadership voted into office in April, while also calling on media outlets to use their voices to support national interests.
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According to Independent Election Commission (IEC) representatives, foreign and local security officials in Ghazni Province on Monday, of the total 394 polling stations in the province, nearly 170 currently face moderate to serious security threats.
The news comes after the IEC received a report last week from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) confidently predicting that over 90 percent of all voting polling centers around the country - over 6,800 of them - would be open on the April 5 election day despite current security concerns.