Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah urged the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday to stop the vote recount, calling the process “illegal.”

"The IEC decided that only the biometric votes will be counted, so if there is no data for other votes, they must not be counted," said Abdullah at a gathering in Kabul.

In this episode of the program, host Karim Amini discusses the topic with the following panelists:

Qasim Elias, commissioner at IECC

Hafizurrahman Naqi, a member of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s electoral team

Shafiz Saighani, a member of Abdullah Abdullah’s electoral team

Ajmal Hodman, a member of Ashraf Ghani’s electoral team