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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Vote leaders take campaigns across Afghanistan AFP - Saturday, August 15 KABUL (AFP) - - The top candidates in the Afghan presidency race jetted across the nation Friday to win support for next week's polls as an official claimed some Taliban commanders would allow voting in their areas. ADVERTISEMENT An eager crowd of around 10,000 welcomed President Hamid Karzai, frontrunner in the August 20 elections, after he flew into Herat for his first rally in the western city in a nearly two-month campaign, an AFP reporter said. In an address, Karzai repeated a pledge to draw the Taliban into talks to end their insurgency and presented his inclusion of former warlords in his election bid as proof that he brought unity to ethnically diverse Afghanistan. "We're working for peace across the country, it's a matter of pride for us that national unity is established in Afghanistan," he said, standing alongside Herat strongman and powerful Soviet resistance commander Ismail Khan. Karzai said his country was growing in stature and would be able to prevent "foreigners" from jailing Afghans, an apparent reference to US forces who have arrested locals in counter-terrorism sweeps. President Barack Obama has shifted the emphasis of the US wars from Iraq to Afghanistan, where suspects have been rounded up since the 2001 invasion and sent to controversial prisons Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram near Kabul. Karzai's closest rival Abdullah Abdullah flew into the central province of Dai Kundi where he was welcomed by several thousand supporters and later addressed about 5,000 in a tent, an AFP photographer said. Ex-finance minister Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank academic who lived in the United States for years, travelled to the southern province of Zabul and was due later in Bamiyan for another meeting, his campaign office said. The three are the most prominent standing in Afghanistan's second presidential election, a test of Western-led efforts to bring democracy to the country after the 2001 US-led invasion toppled the extremist Taliban regime. There will be 41 names on the ballot paper although at least five would-be contenders have announced through the media they have dropped out, although only one officially informed election authorities. A poll of 2,400 Afghans released Friday by the International Republican Institute said 44 percent of those polled in late July would vote for Karzai and 26 percent for Abdullah. Ten percent chose independent candidate Ramazan Bashardost, a popular Kabul lawmaker who has campaigned to abolish corruption but is considered an eccentric, and six percent Ghani, said the US-based pro-democracy organisation. As the tempo of campaigning quickens ahead of Monday's cut-off date, authorities pushed on with frantic efforts to stabilise volatile areas where insecurity has thrown voting into doubt. Election officials say insecurity makes polling unlikely in nine out of 365 districts, mostly in the south, while the number of polling stations could be down as much as 12 percent on an original plan for nearly 7,000. The controversial younger brother of the president, Ahmed Wali Karzai, told AFP that community leaders in the south had persuaded grassroots Taliban leaders not to target the election. "There are some agreements already reached between elders and local Taliban, but not with those Taliban who are part of Al-Qaeda," said Karzai. He heads the elected provincial council of Kandahar province, but also runs his brother's election campaign in the south and has denied accusations in the Western media of involvement in Afghanistan's lucrative drugs trade. "There are some small local Taliban groups who have agreed not to create any problem on election day. The elders have convinced them that this is against the interests of the people and of Pashtuns," he said. The Pashtuns are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, to which both Karzai and mainstream Taliban belong. Taliban threats to prevent people from reaching polling stations have raised concerns that turnout could be low, compromising the legitimacy of the vote. Thousands of US troops have poured into the south in recent months to drive out insurgents but a rising number of attacks is also stoking fears that the threat of violence will keep many of the 17 million electorate away from the polls. In a new attack, Taliban fighters clashed with police in the northern province of Baghlan late Friday and killed five, including two children aged between five and seven years, provincial police chief Amir Gul said. 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