Pro-Taliban militants in Afghanistan have threatened to attack polling stations set up for the upcoming presidential elections across the country, Press TV reported.
Militants in the Kandahar Province renewed their threats to attack the people who take part in Thursday's elections.
The threats came in leaflets dropped in villages in southern Afghanistan.
The militants say the Afghans can either refuse to vote or become victims of their operations.
It is the first time the militants have directly threatened the Afghans to boycott the elections.
Meanwhile, the Afghan defense ministry says that more than 30 militants, including a number of foreigners, have been killed in an overnight operation in northeastern Afghanistan.
The Kabul government has been trying to increase security ahead of the vote by deploying additional troops all around the country.
There are more than 100,000 international soldiers in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is to hold its second presidential election since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban on August 20, 2009.
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