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Afghan Girl Makes Smart Voting Device For Presidential Election
Shabnam Meer, 24, an Afghan girl who is the alumna of psychology, has made a smart voting device that can help having a transparent and fair election.
The device took six months to be made.
Shabnam says that this device can prevent frauds in the election by saving the clean votes directly in the Independent Election Commission (IEC)’s server.
The smart voting device provides the facility to know the result of the election at the end of the polling day, Shabnam says.
“The device automatically sends the votes to the IEC; hereby, the commission can announce the preliminary result at the end of the polling day and the final result in the following day,” says Shabnam.
How does the device work?
According to Shabnam, each voting sheet has a barcode to prevent any fraud.
After recognizing the voter’s identity by using the biometric system, one more barcode will be stacked to the sheet, adds Shabnam.
She further says that the data on the voting sheet will be scanned by the two laser eyes once the sheet is put in the device.
All the data of the device can be sent out directly to the server of IEC from the polling station without the need to the internet, adds Shabnam
Shabnam says “the device uses receivers on it for the GSM sim-cards, which has the GPRS function in all over Afghanistan, for sending the votes to IEC”.
In addition to these all, Shabnam has used Closed Circuit TVs (CCTVs) in the polling station; one for capturing the voter’s image and the second for recording the entire voting process.
According to Shabnam, the CCTVs are connected to smartphones to monitor the polling station during the process.
This device is made in such a way that can work in the areas without electricity using solar power.
This comes as the IEC announced on Thursday that no biometric system will be used in the upcoming presidential election.
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Girls’ education is a ‘vital issue’ for Afghanistan: Karzai
Former president Hamid Karzai said in a meeting with Iran’s ambassador and special representative, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, that education of girls was a “vital issue” for Afghanistan.
Karzai said he appreciated Iran’s cooperation and its standing with the Afghan people, especially Iran’s contributions to education in Afghanistan.
During the meeting, Karzai said peace and stability in the region are in the interest of all regional countries.
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Uzbekistan’s humanitarian aid arrives in Balkh
A shipment of humanitarian aid from Uzbekistan was handed over on Thursday to the local officials of Balkh province in the trade port of Hairatan.
Local authorities said the aid, which includes flour, oil, wheat, sugar and meat, has been handed over by Uzbekistan’s Surkhandarya governor to the governor of Balkh.
The governor of Surkhandarya stated the purpose of sending this aid was to support the people of Afghanistan and stressed the need for the development of good relations between the two countries.
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Afghanistan’s problems caused more damage to Pakistan than 3 wars with India: Durrani
Islamabad’s special envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani said on Wednesday that Pakistan has suffered more due to Afghanistan’s internal situation than Pakistan has suffered in three wars with India in terms of blood spilt and finances drained.
Durrani said at a one-day International Conference titled “Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape”, which was organized by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), that over 80,000 Pakistanis died in the two decades of the War on Terror and that his country was still counting its dead and injured.
“After the withdrawal of NATO forces, it was hoped that peace in Afghanistan would bring peace to the region. However, such expectations were short-lived,” he said.
He also stated that attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group on Pakistan’s border areas increased by 65 percent, while suicide attacks increased by 500 percent.
“The TTP’s enhanced attacks on Pakistan while using Afghan soil have been a serious concern for Pakistan. Another worrying aspect is the participation of Afghan nationals in these attacks,” he said.
Durrani also said Pakistan had suffered geopolitically since the Soviet Union invaded the neighboring country.
“The post-9/11 world order has negatively impacted Pakistan. Apart from losing 80,000 citizens’ lives, including 8,000 law enforcement agency personnel, the country’s economic opportunity cost is estimated at $150 billion,” Durrani said.
Talking about the future outlook for Pakistan in the regional context, Durrani said that while “our eastern neighbor is likely to continue with its anti-Pakistan pursuits, the western border poses an avoidable irritant in the short to medium term.”
However, he said Pakistan can overcome its difficulties with Afghanistan, including the TTP challenge.
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