i am daughters in afghanistan to the polls on saturday to choose a successor to present hamad karzai. i try to knock someone in bangkok is falling the story. neocons have the election will be at ten point seven one ravaged country. don t be skeptical it will be real that some of his awesome day to get to come on that's the message of the current and is the day before the election has highlighted the dangers. mine is for president including former foreign minister ought to not do that he was karzai's main challenger five years ago former finance minister ashraf khan he is oh soo funny silly. i have the outgoing president another former foreign minister sony weasel out of boxes and that it could be dispatched to polling stations across the country security is being times internet threats from the un to attack anyone who takes on its cause i was banned from seeking a third time under the constitution of the state equal to or choose to resist intimidation. another daring act of violence to place on friday and had to jet is whacking the associated press was killed. the congress of the woun

election went ahead on saturday and that's despite a heavy taliban terror threat the successor to hamad karzai is expected to be named by the end of the month and the new head of state will have their hands loaded with security challenges lisa catherine of reports now from kabul. millions of afghans to find a taliban threats to cast their ballots and there was no major security incidents six people did die in a rocket attack on a polling center there were some clashes in provincial areas but those are places that had already been fighting a taliban insurgency so nothing even remotely resembling the violence that we had seen in the run up to the historic vote one that many are calling a triumph of determination over intimidation the counting of votes will last for a while but officials do say that about seven million afghans cast their ballots out of some twelve million eligible voters especially sixty percent much higher than what we saw in the last election one of the biggest concerns that some urged this time around was the shortage of ballots across the country this could be a result of the