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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Taliban kidnap candidate on eve of Afghan poll AFP - Saturday, September 18 Send IM Story Print KABUL (AFP) - – The Taliban kidnapped an Afghan parliamentary candidate on Friday and were blamed for snatching another 18 election workers, as President Hamid Karzai warned of "irregularities" in the weekend poll. The militia, fighting an insurgency for nine years since being ousted from power, have threatened attacks to disrupt Saturday's poll and called for a boycott, putting security forces on high alert. The Taliban claimed responsibility for abducting Abdul Rahman Hayat, a candidate from eastern Lagman province, and an electoral official also blamed the other kidnappings on the Taliban, who have already killed three candidates. "We have kidnapped Hayatullah Hayat," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to an AFP reporter. The insurgents were also blamed for the kidnapping Thursday of 18 electoral officials and campaign workers in northwestern Baghdis province. More than 2,500 candidates are standing for 249 seats in the lower house of parliament, the Wolesi Jirga. "In Afghanistan under the circumstances we must expect that there'll be irregularities, there'll be problems and there'll be allegations as well," Karzai told reporters at his palace in Kabul. Karzai, re-elected to a second term last year amid massive fraud that was mostly in his favour, urged all Afghans to vote, including "those Taliban who are the sons of this country". "We should try to do our best under the circumstances and make the elections a success as things are today. Therefore, it's important that the Afghan people come out and vote and have trust in their vote." US special envoy Richard Holbrooke acknowledged to reporters in Islamabad that the polls "are going to be flawed" but said it was significant they were taking place. "We've had experience in our country with flawed elections and not in the middle of a war. So we're not looking for perfection here." While Western diplomats have played down expectations of corruption and intimidation, Peter Manikas, of the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI), said standards should not be compromised because Afghanistan is at war. Related article: Karzai warns of poll "irregularities" "Conflict doesn't excuse massive fraud and it doesn't excuse not being able to hold the election in every district and they should do everything they can to ensure they can do that," said Manikas, director of NDI's Asia programme. Campaigning ended at midnight on Wednesday, providing Afghans with a "silence period" until polls close at 4:00 pm (1130 GMT) Saturday. Many candidates are young and hundreds are women, with 68 seats reserved for women. Up to 60 percent of Afghanistan's population -- estimated, for lack of a census, at 28 million -- is believed to be younger than 30 years. After turnout in the presidential election of around 30 percent, Andy Campbell of the NDI said "four, five, six million people may actually turn out to participate" in Saturday's poll. "There is a maturity in the electorate, people want to participate in spite of the open insurgency," he told Al Jazeera television, adding: "They are turning out because they actually want to make a change." Mark Sedwill, NATO's civilian representative in Afghanistan, said he believed "millions of Afghans will turn out and vote". "We have seen over 2,000 candidates for 250 seats so there is a very strong democratic spirit in this country," he told BBC television. Adding to concerns over fraud, authorities said they seized fake voter cards and observer accreditation badges in Kabul and the provinces of Ghazni and Ghor. Weary after more than 30 years of war, disillusioned by official corruption and fearful of the Taliban threats, many Afghans said they would not vote. "I heard that thousands of fake voting cards have been discovered. This means there will be fraud and good people will not be elected," said 38-year-old Kabul carpenter Mohammed Zaman. "I don't want to endanger my life for a election in which there will be fraud," he added, referring to the Taliban threats. A total of 5,816 polling centres nationwide will open, but election officials said around 1,000 will not. Related article: Donkeys -- forging a path for democracy in Afghanistan That could mean that thousands of people may not be able to vote -- particularly in Taliban strongholds. The Taliban have threatened polling centres, election workers and security forces, and a spokesman warned that voters who dare to try to cast ballots "will get hurt". 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