According to the sources, some senior officials of the Taliban in their meeting with the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and the Qatari foreign minister have asked Washington to announce its final stance on the peace process immediately so that the group can finalize its military plans for spring.

 “The US special envoy for Afghanistan requested two or three days' time to speak to high level officials in Washington about signing the peace agreement,” said Sami Yousufzai, a journalist in Doha.

The fate of some of the 300,000 disputed votes that underwent a special audit still remains unclear, according to decisions of the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC),  revealed by documents seen by TOLOnews.
 
On February 5 the IECC announced that a tiny percentage of the 300,000 disputed votes would undergo a special audit, rather than the assessment of all of the votes in question.