She also provided information about filling of vacant positions of IEC at center and provinces and said 24 vacant positions of head of provincial departments and 8 vacant positions of head of department at IEC HQ were announced and the applicants CVs are received. She added the IEC will review the applicants’ applications and shortlist eligible applicants in presence of representatives of civil society organizations and media. She said dysfunction of government system is the reason of delay in introduction of new chief electoral officer of IEC and seriously criticized it. She added the IEC has sent a letter to the administrative office of the president in this regard but it denies receiving of the letter. She added making decision about electoral constituencies and introduction of new member of IEC are the duties of government and warned in case the government does not make decision about electoral constituencies and deter from introducing new member of IEC until 18th December, then the IEC will elect one of its members as chairperson of IEC and will divide the electoral constituencies into 12 constituencies but some participants of the meeting declared shortage of time as a challenge before determination of electoral constituencies. Subsequently, a participant of the meeting castigated the IEC for hosting Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and accused the IEC of having caution conduct with political parties. However, Mrs. Maleha Hassan said a member of IEC paved the ground for hosting Hekmatyar in IEC. Subsequently, Mr. Mohammad Nazari, head of public relation department of IECC provided information about the complaints recorded on assessment of polling centers and said, “The IECC handled the complaints regarding the assessment of polling centers from November 2 to 11, 2017. Within this period, it handled 40 complaints from 4 provinces (Panjshir, Bamyan, Daikundi and Kabul). Most of the complaints related to removal of polling centers but the IECC hasn’t been able to make decision regarding the complaints because the IEC hasn’t uploaded the list and information belonged to the assessment of polling centers in its website. Therefore, the IECC will extend the duration of receiving complaints regarding the assessment of polling centers for 30 more days.” He also talked about appointment of head of secretariat of IECC and said however the IECC sent the list of 6 finalist candidates of this post to the president but the president hasn’t select and appoint one of them yet. Mr. Abdul Khaleq Azimi, representative of Central Statistics Organization provided information about preparation of his organization in assisting with the Civil Status Registration Authority in issuance of national ID cards. Mrs. Sheela Saba, representative of the IDLG provided information about work of the joint committee made up from the representatives of security sector and IDLG in 34 provinces to prevent meddling in election and IEC affairs. Mrs. Parween Khaleqi, representative of Ministry of Women Affairs heralded commencement of awareness campaign on importance of receiving national ID cards, across the country. At the end of the meeting, Mr. Mohammad Naeem Asghari, programs manager of FEFA provided information about FEFA’s preparation for monitoring upcoming electoral stages. However, he said lack of issuance of credential letters by IEC to FEFA is a challenge.