Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations

by pankaj kumar | September 5, 2010 at 08:15 am

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Taliban is continuously disrupting the afghan peace process and so the coming parliamentary election is going to held under the umbrella of threat.Karjai the most well dressed politecian has to face challenge in the coming election .

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.

Meanwhile, two coalition soldiers — at least one of them British — were killed in fighting in the turbulent south, while a political rival of President Hamid Karzai questioned his approach to pending talks with rebels who might be persuaded to abandon the insurgency.

The threat issued Sunday comes just under two weeks before the vote and follows the announcement of a final list of polling places to be opened around the country.

"It is only to the benefit of foreigners who want to maintain their existence in the country by holding such a process and we believe that the people will not get any benefit out of it," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

"That's why we announced to the local people that all Afghan people should boycott this election and they should not participate on the polling date," Mujahid said