The Independent Election Commission (IEC) warned on Saturday that if the electoral teams continue to oppose the recount process, the commissioners will call for government intervention.

According to IEC officials, provincial offices are currently closed in seven provinces because of boycotting election team members. Those provinces are:Faryab, Sar-e Pol, Jawzjan, Badakhshan, Panjshir, Baghlan and Takhar. The IEC says the offices were closed by Abdullah Abdullah's electoral team in protest of the recount.

The Ministry of Education said on Saturday that its investigation into allegations of sex abuse of hundreds of children and youths in Logar province will be wrapped up soon and  the findings will be shared with the public. 

In mid-November, a Logar civil society group claimed that “over 500” children and youth had been sexually abused in six schools in the province. Apparently a “ring” of abusers had made videos of their victims and posted them online, causing some of the abused boys and teenagers to be killed by their parents, presumably for dishonoring the family. The UK’s Guardian took up the story and quoted civil society members saying “ teachers, headteachers and local authority officials are implicated in the abuse ring.”