KABUL, 26 December 2021, (TON): A spokesperson for the interim government said “the Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan's election commission, a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration.”

Taliban government spokesperson Bilal Karimi said "there is no need for these commissions to exist and operate.” The referring to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission.

"If we ever feel a need, the Islamic Emirate will revive these commissions."

The Taliban swept to power in August as a Western-backed government imploded in the final stages of a US military withdrawal.

According to the commission's website “established in 2006, the IEC was mandated to administer and supervise all types of elections, including presidential.”

Aurangzeb, who headed the panel up until the fall of the previous regime, told "they have taken this decision in a hurry and dissolving the commission would have huge consequences.”

Aurangzeb, who like many Afghans goes by only one name said "if this structure does not exist, I'm 100 per cent sure that Afghanistan's problems will never be solved as there won't be any elections.”