Aid groups in Afghanistan called for the government to ban election offices from schools and health clinics for next year's presidential vote.

At the last presidential election in 2009, polling booths were targeted by the Taliban and other armed groups, roadside bombs killed election staff, and abductions, illegal checkpoints and threatening "night letters" were rife.
Government officials and police also ordered people how to vote and stuffed ballot boxes with bundles of voting papers, according to independent observers.
"Afghan and international security forces will be involved in the protection of voting centres and the fact that the current political process is strongly contested (means that)... voting centers present a high risk of being attacked," ACBAR said in a statement.
It said that using healthcare facilities and schools as a "political space" could undermine their civilian status and drag them into an election process likely to be violent.
"We ask that this abuse of health and school facilities should under all circumstances be avoided," said the group, which has 120 NGO members ranging from Save the Children to small local organisations.
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President Hamid Karzai cannot stand for a third term, and 11 candidates are vying to succeed him.
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Source-AFP