Manawi wrote on his Twitter that the election commissions officials have been banned by Dr Abdullah Abdullah to respond to the betrayal they have committed.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has been declared the winner of last September's election following delays due to allegations of vote-rigging.

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says the data of more than one million voters has been successfully transferred to servers after technical problems with biometric devices used in the voting process.

The head of Afghanistan’s IEC says that the processing of information is ongoing fast and the preliminary results will be announced later in October.