PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BOYCOTTING ELECTIONS TO ISSUE A STATEMENT

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KABUL, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - Fifteen candidates who boycotted the presidential elections in Afghanistan are going to explain their position in the near future, said independent candidate Abdul Satar Sirat.

Fifteen out of the 16 remaining presidential candidates opposed to the Interim President, Pushtu national Hamid Karzai, earlier signed an agreement to boycott the elections.

The candidates warned that if Karzai won the first round they would proclaim the elections illegitimate because of fraud.

According to General Azimi, representative of the Afghan Defense Ministry, there was an armed attack on a polling station in Kabul's suburb. The attackers tried to seize the polling station but were repulsed by the police. Three policemen were injured as a result. One attacker was captured.

The attackers are supporters of the Taliban and Afghanistan's Islamic Party. (It is led by Pushtu Gulbeddin Hekmatyar, the former premier of the Burhanuddin Rabbani government. After the latter's refusal to resign from his post, Gulbeddin Hekmatyar became his opponent. When the United States overthrew the Taliban regime, he returned to Afghanistan from Iran where he had been in exile, and claimed the beginning of the armed struggle against foreign invaders and their protйgй Karzai).

This was the only armed attack during the Saturday elections, General Azimi said.

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