Election officials in Afghanistan are sifting through scores of fraud complaints after insurgents killed at least 50 people on polling day.
Afghans have lined up to vote in a second-round presidential election despite Taliban threats as US-led combat troops wind down a 13-year war.
Exceeding turnout predictions, thousands of Afghans took to the polls to cast their votes for a new president despite Taliban threats.
Despite cold weather and the Taliban rejecting Afghanistan’s election as a foreign plot, voters turned out in large numbers to choose a new president.
Voting has begun in Afghanistan’s presidential election, marking the first democratic transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Violent opposition to Afghanistan’s April 5 election aside, the true democratic challenge will begin after the poll.
On Saturday Afghanistan votes for a new president. The M&G spoke to the UN’s special representative for Afghanistan ahead of the country’s elections.
The powerful Afghan vice-president Marshal MQ Fahim has died of natural causes, weeks before the country goes to the polls.
Concerns were growing on Monday about intimidation and fraud in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election.
Millions of Afghans are expected to defy Taliban threats and vote in a poll on Saturday seen as a crucial step towards building democracy.
Afghanistan’s 17-million voters are set to go to the polls on Thursday with security forces on high alert against a threatened Taliban onslaught.