However, Abdul Waseh Alakozay assured voters could go confidently to the rest of 643 polling centres to exercise their franchise in tomorrow's presidential and provincial council elections.
Nine of the closed centres were in Ghorak and Mianashin districts of
Election materials had been shifted to the centres, said Alakozay, who urged Afghans come out in force and vote in the key polls that he described as the centre of international attention. Voters belonging to the areas where polling centres could not be opened should go to nearby districts to cast ballots, he said.
Gen. Ghulam Ali Wahdat, Maiwand Zone police commander, said Afghan and foreign forces were ready to ensure stringent security arrangement on Election Day. Security personnel deputed at check-posts on the roads to polling stations are conducting patrols to cope with any eventuality.
Spurning militant claim that roads had been closed, Gen. Wahdat asserted security forces' capability of defeating 'the enemies of the country." He called on Afghans to cooperate with the army and police in foiling the insurgents' attempts at disrupting the polls.
Brig. Gen. Sher Muhammad Zazai, commander of the 205th Military Corps in
During the last couple of days, residents of Dand,
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