Afghanistan launched on April 14 its voter registration drive for long-delayed parliamentary and provincial council elections that are scheduled for October.

Over the next two months, authorities hope to register up to 14 million men and women at 7,300 polling centers across a country where militants control or contest much of the territory.
Gulajan Abdul Badi Sayyad, chairman of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), said that the first phase of the registration will continue in provincial capitals for nearly a month before a second phase covering district centers and towns begins.
As part of electoral reforms after the fraud-marred presidential election in 2014, voters must register again and will receive new voting identification cards.