To update on all the pro-women election activism (and anti-activism) surrounding the September 18th election in Afghanistan, Afghani women will continue to run for election, despite consistent attempts to thwart their efforts.

Feminist Majority Foundation comments...

In Logar province, one female candidates door was set on fire, while in Helmand province, letters offering a US $4,000 reward for killing female candidates were given out...

Some 237 women are running for seats on provincial councils, which will then appoint one-third of the seats in the upper house of parliament. Only 12 percent of candidates for the lower house of parliament are women, though 27 percent of seats in that body are reserved for women.