KABUL – Afghanistan deployed over 100,000 troops and police on Thursday to guard polling stations in a presidential election which the Taliban threatened to disrupt with suicide bombings and rocket attacks.
The country has been marred with violence every election in the last decade, wherein Taliban Islamic militants were fighting United States-backed government forces and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country.
Security will be tight as the more than 29,500 polling stations were set up in schools, mosques, hospital compounds and district centers.(Reuters)
