Taliban asked to vote in Afghan elections

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Kabul : Afghanistan | 4 months ago

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Taliban and other insurgent groups were asked yesterday by Afghan President Hamid KarzaiAfghan President Hamid Karzai to vote in upcoming August elections and to refrain from attacking the polls. "It is also my wish that our Taliban brothers and all other Afghans who are not in Afghanistan for various reasons and are standing in opposition... I request them again and again to renounce violence not only on the election day but forever," he said.

As announced by Hamid Karzai, all eligible Afghans should register for voting and vote in presidential and provincial council elections held in August 20.

The Afghan President was likely directing his words towards Pakistan-based insurgents, including the group’s leader Mullah Mohammad OmarMullah Mohammad Omar, who fled Afghanistan after the U.S.-led invasion in October 2001.

There are significant concerns that the anti-coalition militants will attack the polls or prevent civilian Afghans from voting, especially in the conflict-ridden areas in the south of the country.

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