5914 Polling Centres will be Secured: MoI

The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) told reporters in a joint press conference on Sunday that only 5914 centres will be secured

The spokesman for the MoI, Zemarai Bashari, remarked the decision is made by all foreign and Afghan security organisations and the figure will not be changed.

Meanwhile, he acknowledged that the Taliban's attack on foreign troops' bastions in eastern Afghanistan was coordinated, expressing awareness of the incidents.

"Police forces had intelligence information that such attacks were planned. Secondly, a defence ring was formed in the area and when the insurgents were trying to infiltrate into Khost province at 03:00 pm, the ring targeted them," said Mr Zemarai.

While security operations have been boosted in order to ensure security for the upcoming parliament poll, the MoI said some 5914 polling centres of 6830 will be secured.

The factors which led to the limitation of polling centres are rugged routes, Kuchis' (nomads) uncertain locations and security threats, the MoI said.

"I should say that the decision is not made only by MoI. All security organisations are involved in it," he said. "Only the MoI cannot decrease or increase the centres, there should be general understanding on everything."

In the coordinated assaults that took place in eastern Afghanistan which targeted two foreign troops compounds, 24 insurgents were killed and 5 others were wounded by the Afghan and foreign forces in the gun battle.