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		</div><p>Afghans headed to the polls to vote for a new president on Saturday amid high security after the Taliban vowed to disrupt the elections, warning citizens to stay home or risk being hurt.</p>
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<p>Already, at least 15 people have been injured in the southern city of Kandahar after a bomb blast at a local mosque where a polling station is located.</p>
<p>The leading contenders for the presidency are the incumbent Ashraf Ghani and his partner in the five-year-old unity government, Abdullah Abdullah, who has alleged abuses of power by his opponent.</p>
<figure id="attachment_140856" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-140856" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-140856" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/8352D62E-633C-42BC-B86A-790104406EA9.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-140856" class="wp-caption-text">Afghan president Ashraf Ghani casts his vote</figcaption></figure>
<p>Fear and frustration at the relentless corruption that has characterised successive governments rank high among Afghan concerns.</p>
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<p>Tens of thousands of police, intelligence officials and Afghan National Army personnel have been deployed throughout the country to protect nearly 5,000 election centres.</p>
<p>The Taliban said it will take particular aim at Afghanistan’s cities.</p>
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<p>Fear and frustration at the relentless corruption that has characterised successive governments ranks high among the concerns of Afghanistan’s 9.6 million eligible voters.</p>
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