In this August 15, 2021 file photo, Taliban fighters capture Afghanistan’s Rashtrapati Bhavan in Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions as well as the state ministries of peace and parliamentary affairs, an official said on Sunday.
Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government, said the country’s independent election commission and the Election Complaints Commission had been dissolved.
He called them “unnecessary institutions for the current situation in Afghanistan”. He said the Taliban government could revive them if the commissions were needed in the future.
The international community is waiting before formally recognizing the new rulers of Afghanistan. They are apprehensive that the Taliban may impose the same harsh regime they did 20 years ago – despite assurances to the contrary.
Both election commissions were mandated to administer and supervise all forms of elections in the country, including presidential, parliamentary and provincial council elections.
Karimi said the Taliban had also dissolved the Ministry of Peace and the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. They are unnecessary ministries in the current structure of the government, he said. The Taliban had previously shut down the former women’s affairs ministry.
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