Appearing on at least two major American television networks on Sunday, Dr Abdullah said he remains apprehensive about another attempt of fraud by his rivals on November 7 when the country goes to poll to elect its president in the second round.

I am very concerned about this and I think I need to decide in the coming days on what to do about it, Abdullah told the CNN in an interview, adding that he would soon come up with sets of measures and conditions so that this could not be repeated.

If you think that we cannot exclude fraud this time around, so I do not want this upcoming opportunity to turn into another waste. So in that sense, I hope that together with the international community, we can come up with measures that ensure transparency and fairness of the elections, Abdullah said.

On Friday, the Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, had said that he expected the elections this time to have less irregularity but not full proof, by western standards.

I am not talking about boycott at this stage, though my supporters are pressing on that point, that if the state machinery a fraud, as well as election commission, which was unfortunately involved in fraud -- both are in place, and then both are working in collaboration with one another, perhaps we might have to go through the same sort of saga, Abdullah told the Fox News in another interview.

Abdullah said he is working with the international community on sets of conditions which have to be met. These are not conditions in favor of one candidate against another, he said adding some of the things he will be putting forward are very serious issues.

Without it, without considering it, we will not have a transparent, credible process, and it will be very difficult to convince the people to turn out and to show up, because the people are taking risk. And they are taking risk in the first round elections, he said.

Meanwhile the White House said the US President, Barack Obama, would hold another Situation Room meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan with his national security team.

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