Taliban insurgents threatened earlier today to attack Afghanistan´s run-off presidential election, warning voters to stay away from polling stations for fear of injury or death.
Afghans are due to go to the polls on June 14 to choose whether Ashraf Ghani or Abdullah Abdullah should succeed President Hamid Karzai.
In a statement in English on their website, the Taliban said their fighters “are once again fully prepared to operate against the workers and polling stations in the second phase of these counterfeit elections”. “Therefore, you (the masses) should remain far away from the polling stations on 14th June, 2014, lest you should be hurt or killed.”
