More than 4,000 Afghans including over 300 women have registered their names to run for the upcoming parliamentary polls slated for September 18, spokesperson of the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said Thursday.

"Out of 2,361 people registered for Wolesi Jirga, 268 are women, " Bronwyn Curran told Xinhua.

The post-Taliban Afghan parliament would be a two-chamber house consisting of 249-seat Wolesi Jirja or lower house and 102-seat Mishrano Jirga or Upper house.

In the Wolesi Jirga women would have 68 seats, and the provincial councils, with 124 female representatives, will elect the member of upper house or senate through a complicated procedure.

She also added that, out of 2,044 aspirant candidates nominated for the Provincial Councils, 109 are women.

To a query she blamed the security and tradition for the low turnout of women nomination in the polls and saying "security, mobility and men's permission were the three main obstacles barring women from competition".

In the conservative Afghan society women particularly in rural areas are bound to seek husbands' consent if they want to work out of home.

However, the most controversial but attractive figure among the aspirant candidates is the foreign minister of ousted Taliban regime Mawlawi Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil who has been under house arrest over the past three years.

Wakil, who considered as moderate figure, according to Afghan sources has offered his candidacy to contest from his hometown Kandahar the former stronghold of Taliban.

Nevertheless the reports, JEMB's spokesperson refused to comment on Mutawakil's nomination by saying, "Unfortunately we cannot say anything on that issue".

Taliban has made no comment on Mutawakil's reported nomination to run for elections.

Mutawakil's nomination is taking place amid increasing Taliban- led militancy in which 11 workers of aid agencies have been killed in their attacks since Wednesday.

Source: Xinhua