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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 Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Shadow of fraud lengthens over Afghan vote AFP - Tuesday, September 8 KABUL (AFP) - - The taint of fraud deepened in Afghanistan's election Monday after many thousands of votes were tossed out, as a planned international conference underlined mounting Western anxiety about the nation. ADVERTISEMENT President Hamid Karzai is edging towards the 50-percent mark needed to avoid a run-off ballot against former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, according to the latest batch of results from the August 20 election. But allegations of rampant ballot-stuffing and intimidation by Karzai loyalists are threatening to undermine the victor's credibility, as the West battles to shore up his government against a reinvigorated Taliban insurgency. Three NATO soldiers were killed at the weekend by roadside bombs, the Taliban militia's weapon of choice, and another died in a firefight, alliance officials said. A rocket fired at a house in Kabul meanwhile killed three members of one family and wounded two others, Afghan officials said, underlining the insurgent threat. In an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Monday, Karzai said he hoped to hold peace talks with the Taliban within 100 days if he is confirmed in office for another five years. But Karzai insisted he would not sit down with any faction that refuses to cut its links with Al-Qaeda or fails to respect the Afghan constitution. In the latest partial results announced Sunday, Karzai had 48.6 percent of the vote against 31.7 percent for Abdullah. But around 200,000 votes had been cancelled because of fraud, an official of the Independent Election Commission told AFP. Zekria Barakzai, Afghanistan's deputy chief electoral officer, said Monday that IEC teams had discovered most of the fraudulent ballots in the southern provinces of Paktika, Ghazi and Kandahar -- Karzai's heartland. Barakzai said many votes had been "marked with one pen in favour of the same candidate and entire ballot books dropped into boxes without the pages being torn off". "In most democratic countries the punishment for election fraud is equal to that for terrorism and drugs, but unfortunately this is not the case under our law," the electoral official also told reporters. "If we had such strong laws, we would willingly punish whoever is responsible for vote fraud," he said. Abdullah has alleged much of the fraud is in Karzai's favour and threatened to shun a result that he believes is compromised. The New York Times reported that Karzai loyalists had set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites, where nobody voted but hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded toward the president's re-election. The final result is not due before September 17. A Western official in Kabul said the fraud allegations were hurting public opinion in the West, with opinion polls in the United States and Europe already showing declining support for their increasingly bloody military intervention. More than 300 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far this year, compared to 294 in all of 2008. Britain, France and Germany -- faced with their own jittery public opinion and fears of new chaos in Afghanistan -- unveiled on Sunday their plans to hold the international conference later this year. At a joint press briefing with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Afghans to take more responsibility for their own country. With the help of an upcoming review by the new US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, the conference will clarify for all nations "what job they have to do and what our common aim is", Merkel said. Another Western official, who also asked for anonymity, said the European powers should wait for McChrystal's strategic review. "We need another talking shop like we need a hole in the head," he said. While the election has drawn the Western public's attention to corruption in Afghanistan, civilian casualties are also intensifying Afghan public anger against the international troop presence. Karzai's office said up to 90 people were killed in a NATO air strike Friday on Taliban-hijacked fuel trucks in the country's north. On Saturday McChrystal promised a full investigation into the strike. 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